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Gray is an outstanding example of the professional man of learning who happened by a chance gift of fortune to be also a poetic artist . No one has ever lived a more intensely academic life . His home background had no- thing to offer ...
Gray is an outstanding example of the professional man of learning who happened by a chance gift of fortune to be also a poetic artist . No one has ever lived a more intensely academic life . His home background had no- thing to offer ...
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It gave fresh and wider significance to medieval history , submitted a neglected subject to the standards of exact scholar- ship , greatly broadened our knowledge of unpublished material , and linked with learning , some of which was ...
It gave fresh and wider significance to medieval history , submitted a neglected subject to the standards of exact scholar- ship , greatly broadened our knowledge of unpublished material , and linked with learning , some of which was ...
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His reviews , for example , especially in his later years , are full of learning , sympathy , and wit . Little was always himself . In him , more than in any scholar I have met , the man was inseparable from what he did .
His reviews , for example , especially in his later years , are full of learning , sympathy , and wit . Little was always himself . In him , more than in any scholar I have met , the man was inseparable from what he did .
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Contents
CORRESPONDING FELLOWS 1945 | 4 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir John Clapham | 12 |
THE POETRY OF THOMAS GRAY Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 43 |
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