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The Background of Gray'S Elegy : A Study in the Taste for Melancholy Poetry 1700-1751 / Amy Louise Reed.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative LiteraturePublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1924]Copyright date: ©1924Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231931168
  • 9780231892094
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DEFINITION OF MELANCHOLY -- CHAPTER II. THE TASTE FOR MELANCHOLY IN 1700 -- CHAPTER III. THE REVOLT AGAINST MELANCHOLY 1700-1725 -- CHAPTER IV. MELANCHOLY AND DESCRIPTION 1725-1750 -- CHAPTER V. THE PERSISTENCE OF MELANCHOLY AND ITS ETHICAL CONDEMNATION, 1725-1750 -- CHAPTER VI. THE PERFECTION OF FORM; GRAY'S "ELEGY," 1751 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. LIST OF WORKS QUOTED OR MENTIONED -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- VITA
Summary: Studies the taste for melancholy poetry from 1700-1750. Explores the definition of melancholy during the time period and its interpretation.
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DEFINITION OF MELANCHOLY -- CHAPTER II. THE TASTE FOR MELANCHOLY IN 1700 -- CHAPTER III. THE REVOLT AGAINST MELANCHOLY 1700-1725 -- CHAPTER IV. MELANCHOLY AND DESCRIPTION 1725-1750 -- CHAPTER V. THE PERSISTENCE OF MELANCHOLY AND ITS ETHICAL CONDEMNATION, 1725-1750 -- CHAPTER VI. THE PERFECTION OF FORM; GRAY'S "ELEGY," 1751 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. LIST OF WORKS QUOTED OR MENTIONED -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- VITA

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Studies the taste for melancholy poetry from 1700-1750. Explores the definition of melancholy during the time period and its interpretation.

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In English.

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