János Barcsák, Márta Pellérdi

English literature 1660-1900

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

The greatest poet of the mid-century was undoubtedly Thomas Gray. This is true in spite of the fact that his whole poetic output amounted to less than 1,000 lines. Gray did not know William Collins and had little contact with other contemporary poets; yet he shared their taste and many of their preoccupations. Although he was a scholar deeply read in the classics, he reacted very sensitively to the new tendencies shaping the consciousness of the era: to the wild, untamed aspects of nature, the striking effects of the sublime, the darkness and obscurity of medieval literature, and graveyardism. All this primitivism, all these wild impulses, however, were filtered through his exquisitely sensitive and cultivated mind and distilled into his highly wrought, fully self-conscious and controlled, but still unaffected and genuinely moving poetry.

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2018

ISBN: 978 963 454 261 2

Irodalom PPKE BTK jegyzetek

A history of the English literature is presented here, with a scope on the years 1660 to 1900. The book is written in three main parts; beginning with the Restoration Period of the 17th century, followed by the first, and second halves of the 18th century. Thus, a sequential development of literary genres is presented, with explorations of the key figures and texts which drove these. The book also synthesises the historical, cultural and sociological background which gave rise to this literature, and allows the reader to effectively contextualise these.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/barcsak-pellerdi-english-literature-1660-1900//

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