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• started a new school in poetry called “ the Graveyard School”.
Other works of Gray
“Ode on the Spring” (1742)
“Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (1747)
• He reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown but mocks the great ones who despise the poor
An illustration to Gray's poem Ode on
the Spring
“Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat” (1748)
源自文库
the Graveyard School poetry
“Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard”
The Sentimental Literature
• Samuel Richardson: Pamela • Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental
Journey through France and Italy
• Gray: “Elegy” • Thomas Young: “The Night” • Cowper: “The Task:
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
• A result of eight years’ careful composition and polishing
• The reflection on death, the sorrows of life, and the mysteries of human life with a touch of his personal melancholy
Gray as a leader of the Sentimental literature
• his life experience happened to make him the forerunner of this new literary trend
• his masterpiece “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” once and for all established his fame as the leader the sentimental poetry
Lecture Nine Thomas Gray
Teacher: Wang Xingwei
The Pre-Romanticism
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Life
• Unhappy childhood • Left Cambridge without a degree • The friendship with Horace
Walpole • Professor of History and Modern
Language at Cambridge
Life
• lived at the time when Enlightenment Movement was coming to its end
• the sentimental literature was flourishing
Other works of Gray
“Ode on the Spring” (1742)
“Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (1747)
• He reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown but mocks the great ones who despise the poor
An illustration to Gray's poem Ode on
the Spring
“Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat” (1748)
源自文库
the Graveyard School poetry
“Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard”
The Sentimental Literature
• Samuel Richardson: Pamela • Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental
Journey through France and Italy
• Gray: “Elegy” • Thomas Young: “The Night” • Cowper: “The Task:
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
• A result of eight years’ careful composition and polishing
• The reflection on death, the sorrows of life, and the mysteries of human life with a touch of his personal melancholy
Gray as a leader of the Sentimental literature
• his life experience happened to make him the forerunner of this new literary trend
• his masterpiece “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” once and for all established his fame as the leader the sentimental poetry
Lecture Nine Thomas Gray
Teacher: Wang Xingwei
The Pre-Romanticism
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Life
• Unhappy childhood • Left Cambridge without a degree • The friendship with Horace
Walpole • Professor of History and Modern
Language at Cambridge
Life
• lived at the time when Enlightenment Movement was coming to its end
• the sentimental literature was flourishing