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... Poets : Sections . Southey's Life of Ne.son . Spenser's Faerie Queene , Book I. Stevenson's Kidnapped . Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae . Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey and An Inland Voyage . Stevenson's Treasure Island ...
... Poets : Sections . Southey's Life of Ne.son . Spenser's Faerie Queene , Book I. Stevenson's Kidnapped . Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae . Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey and An Inland Voyage . Stevenson's Treasure Island ...
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... Poets Yardley Oak To the Nightingale To Mary The Castaway The Task The Winter Evening 122 123 130 131 133 136 136 • The Winter Morning Walk 164 NOTES 197 INTRODUCTION A BRIEF LIFE OF THOMAS GRAY THOMAS GRAY , viii CONTENTS.
... Poets Yardley Oak To the Nightingale To Mary The Castaway The Task The Winter Evening 122 123 130 131 133 136 136 • The Winter Morning Walk 164 NOTES 197 INTRODUCTION A BRIEF LIFE OF THOMAS GRAY THOMAS GRAY , viii CONTENTS.
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... poet was very fond of her , and her death is thought to have influenced him to resume and complete the Elegy Written in a Country Church - Yard , " which he had begun seven years before . Its final stanzas were finished early in 1750 ...
... poet was very fond of her , and her death is thought to have influenced him to resume and complete the Elegy Written in a Country Church - Yard , " which he had begun seven years before . Its final stanzas were finished early in 1750 ...
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... Poet - Laureate in 1757 on the death of Cibber , which his dread of publicity forced him to decline . That same year his Pindaric Odes- " The Progress of Poesy " and " The Bard ' were put before the public by Wal- pole , with whom he ...
... Poet - Laureate in 1757 on the death of Cibber , which his dread of publicity forced him to decline . That same year his Pindaric Odes- " The Progress of Poesy " and " The Bard ' were put before the public by Wal- pole , with whom he ...
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... ridiculed by their contem- poraries have now raised Gray and Collins to the rank of our two greatest lyric poets . Beattie , at the end of the eighteenth century , writing to " " Sir William Forbes , says : " Of all the xiv INTRODUCTION.
... ridiculed by their contem- poraries have now raised Gray and Collins to the rank of our two greatest lyric poets . Beattie , at the end of the eighteenth century , writing to " " Sir William Forbes , says : " Of all the xiv INTRODUCTION.
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