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Author

Reed, Amy Louise, 1872-1949.

Title The background of Gray's elegy : [microform] a study in the taste for melancholoy poetry, 1700-1751 / by Amy Louise Reed.

Imprint

New York : Columbia university press, 1924.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets	LEL 11594	---	Available

Description	ix, 270, [1] p. ; 21 cm.
Series	Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature
	Library of English literature ; LEL 11594
Thesis	Issued also as thesis (Ph.D.) Columbia university.
Bibliography	Bibliography: p. 251-264.
Contents	The seventeenth century definition of melancholy. -- The taste for melancholy in 1700. -- The revolt against melancholy, 1700-1725. -- Melancholy and description, 1725-1750. -- The persistence of melancholy and its ethical condemnation, 1725-1750. The perfection of form; Gray's "Elegy," 1751.
Reproduction	Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 sheet of microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 11594)
Note	s 1976 ilu n
Subject	Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. Elegy.
	English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	Melancholy.