The Progress of Poesy
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Excerpt from The Progress of Poesy: An Inaugural Lecture, Delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, on the 10th March 1906 On the 26th of December, 1754, Gray put the last touches to the famous Ode afterwards published by him under the name which I have chosen for the title of this lecture. The scheme of a history of English poetry had then already been long in his mind. Some twelve or fifteen years later he finally gave it over to the hands of a younger poet and scholar, Thomas Warton, Fellow of Trinity, who himself, just one hundred and fifty years ago, became the seventh occupant of this Chair. It has been left for Warton´s distinguished successor, Mr. Courthope, to take up and carry out the scheme which had first been formulated by Pope. Gray left no contribution towards it beyond some scanty notes and the many touches of luminous criticism scattered through his correspondence. Warton, with more industry but less concentration and inferior genius, carried out only a fragment of the vast plan. But the time marked by the conjunction of the two names is one of high importance in English letters; and the poem in which Gray in a sense anticipated and summarized what he meant to be the main work of his life is significant in a twofold sense in the annals of poetry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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