Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Book by Michigan Historical Reprint Series

Product Description: With a brief biography of each author.

Product Description: Gray and Goldsmith were contemporaries. Born in the so-called Age of Pope, both lived well into the period of English letters dominated by Samuel Johnson. The works of both give indications of the dawning romanticism which was to result in the period of Wordsworth and Scott...read more

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Product Description: English Poems of Gray in chronological order and has illustrated them from Gray scorrespondence. So much biographical detail will be found in the notes, that the account of the poets life in the Introduction is necessarily short. If therein one or two circumstances are less briefly treated, this is because they have needed hitherto to be more exactly stated...read more

Product Description: Gray, Churchill and Cowper were the voice of "The Age of Sensibility", which deeply influenced the Romantic writers even as they reacted against them. This text represents a selection of their best work.