The Letters of Thomas Gray (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Gray
- First Published: 1835
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, History, Letters
- Subjects: History, Politics, Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Wit or humor, Gossip, Architecture or architects, Gardens or gardening
Critical Evaluation:
The publication of “Elegy in a Country Churchyard” in February, 1751, was largely responsible for Thomas Gray’s becoming known to his contemporaries as the greatest living English poet; and yet his fame rested on a mere handful of poems, composed slowly, revised over a period of years, and published with the greatest reluctance by the author, chiefly at the instigation of his friend and effective literary adviser, Horace Walpole. Indeed, despite his literary renown Gray lived as a near recluse at Peterhouse and Pembroke Colleges, Cambridge, from the...
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