An edition of Gray Agonistes
(1996)
Gray Agonistes
Thomas Gray and Masculine Friendship
by Robert F. Gleckner
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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.
Publish Date
October 31, 1996
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
English
Pages
272
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Biography, English Love poetry, English Poets, Friends and associates, Friendship, History, History and criticism, Homosexuality and literature, Influence, Love poetry, English, Male authors, Male friendship in literature, Masculinity in literature, Poets, English, Sexual orientation in literature, Mannerfreundschaft, Criticism and interpretation, Homoseksualiteit, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Gray, thomas, 1716-1771, Milton, john, 1608-1674, Latin poetry, translations into english, Love poetry, history and criticism, Poets, Men in literature, Latin poetry, Translations into EnglishPlaces
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