Article: Thomas Gray: A Life.(Review)(Brief Article)

Thomas Gray: A Life by Robert L. Mack. Yale University Press, 718 pp., $39.95. This leisurely biography opens with a drive down congested modem motorways to St. Giles, the site of Gray's tomb and probable inspiration for his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," in an attempt to form a concrete link between present and past, a paradigm for Mack's larger intentions. If the poetry is firmly grounded in English and Latin tradition, it also expresses, as Mack sees it, not only a strong humanist base in the concept of the individual, but personal emotions about which the poet himself had highly conflicting feelings. Part of a growing middle class, Gray attended Eton and ...

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