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Gray agonistes : Thomas Gray and masculine friendship

Title: Gray agonistes : Thomas Gray and masculine friendship / Robert F. Gleckner.
Author: Gleckner, Robert F.
Publication: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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Description

x, 231 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Gray Agonistes is the first book to examine in detail the intersection in Thomas Gray's life and poetry of Milton's career and achievement and Gray's intense sexual relationship with Richard West (and, to a lesser extent, with Horace Walpole and Thomas Ashton, all of whom banded together at Eton as the Quadruple Alliance). In all of Gray's poetry, Robert F. Gleckner discovers sites of intense and heroic struggle, both with Milton's ghost and with Gray's need to articulate his passionate attachment to West.
After West's early death in 1742, Gray's foreboding became anguish and he became the poet of Elegy in a Country Courtyard.

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ISBN

0801854334 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

96017083

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Columbia University Libraries