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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gleckner, Robert F. Gray agonistes. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (OCoLC)605660140 |
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| Named Person: | Thomas Gray; Richard West; John Milton; Thomas Gray; Thomas Gray, Schriftsteller. |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert F Gleckner |
| ISBN: | 0801854334 9780801854330 |
| OCLC Number: | 34546308 |
| Description: | x, 231 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Robert F. Gleckner. |
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Abstract:
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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- Gray, Thomas, -- 1716-1771 -- Friends and associates.
- Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.
- Love poetry, English -- Male authors -- History and criticism.
- West, Richard, -- 1716-1742 -- Friends and associates.
- Friendship -- England -- History -- 18th century.
- Poets, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
- Milton, John, -- 1608-1674 -- Influence.
- Sexual orientation in literature.
- Male friendship in literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Gray, Thomas, -- 1716-1771 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Homoseksualiteit.
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