Gray agonistes : Thomas Gray and masculine friendship

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Gray agonistes : Thomas Gray and masculine friendship

Title remainder

Thomas Gray and masculine friendship

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Robert F. Gleckner

Creator

• Gleckner, Robert F

Subject

• Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 -- Friends and associates
• Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Love poetry, English -- Men authors | History and criticism
• Male friendship in literature
• Friendship -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Influence
• Poets, English -- 18th century -- Biography
• Sexual orientation in literature
• West, Richard, 1716-1742 -- Friends and associates
• Masculinity in literature

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography