The background of Gray's elegy
Subtitle: a study in the taste for melancholoy poetry, 1700-1751
By: by Amy Louise Reed.
Series: Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature; Library of English literature -- LEL 11594.
Publisher: Columbia university press
Published: 1924
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Gray, Thomas, -- 1716-1771; English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Melancholy
Notes: Issued also as thesis (Ph. D.) Columbia university.

Bibliography: p. 251-264.

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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Table of contents: title: The seventeenth century definition of melancholy.; title: The taste for melancholy in 1700.; title: The revolt against melancholy, 1700-1725.; title: Melancholy and description, 1725-1750.; title: The persistence of melancholy and its ethical condemnation, 1725-1750. The perfection of form; Gray's "Elegy," 1751.