{"title":"Thomas Gray's Finish","authors":"A. Hodgson","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2019.0024","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article considers the finish—the formal polish—of Thomas Gray's literary style as it relates to his broader concern with endings not only of poems but also of human lives. It pays attention to poems from across Gray's career, from his early lyrics, to the \"Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard,\" to his later odes and epitaphs, showing how the elegance and memorability of Gray's manner conceal an intricate and humane quality of phrasing, feeling, and vision.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2019.0024","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article considers the finish—the formal polish—of Thomas Gray's literary style as it relates to his broader concern with endings not only of poems but also of human lives. It pays attention to poems from across Gray's career, from his early lyrics, to the "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard," to his later odes and epitaphs, showing how the elegance and memorability of Gray's manner conceal an intricate and humane quality of phrasing, feeling, and vision.
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SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.