The Background of Gray'S Elegy : : A Study in the Taste for Melancholy Poetry 1700-1751 / / Amy Louise Reed.
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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1924] ©1924 |
Year of Publication: | 1924 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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