The background of Gray's elegy : a study in the taste for melancholoy poetry, 1700-1751 / by Amy Louise Reed.
| Author/creator | Reed, Amy Louise |
| Format | Microform |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia university press, 1924. |
| Description | ix, 270 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature. ^A17345 Library of English literature ; LEL 11594. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | The seventeenth century definition of melancholy. -- The taste for melancholy in 1700. -- The revolt against melancholy, 1700-1725. -- Melancholy and description, 1725-1750. -- The persistence of melancholy and its ethical condemnation, 1725-1750. The perfection of form; Gray's "Elegy," 1751. |
| Dissertation note | Issued also as thesis (Ph. D.) Columbia university. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: p. 251-264. |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 sheet of microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 11594) |