The background of Gray's elegy : a study in the taste for melancholoy poetry, 1700-1751

The background of Gray's elegy : a study in the taste for melancholoy poetry, 1700-1751 / by Amy Louise Reed.

Author/creator	Reed, Amy Louise, 1872-1949
Format	Book and Microform
Publication Info	New York : Columbia university press, 1924.
Description	ix, 270 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm.
Subject(s)	Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. Elegy written in a country churchyard. English poetry--18th century --History and criticism. Melancholy.

Series	Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature. ^A17345
Contents	The seventeenth century definition of melancholy. -- The taste for melancholy in 1700. -- The revolt against melancholy, 1700-1725. -- Melancholy and description, 1725-1750. -- The persistence of melancholy and its ethical condemnation, 1725-1750. The perfection of form; Gray's "Elegy," 1751.
Dissertation note	Issued also as thesis (Ph. D.) Columbia university.
Bibliography note	Bibliography: p. 251-264.
Reproduction note	Joyner- Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 sheet of microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 11594)

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