2. Picturesque Tourism

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Bohls
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray, Journal in the Lakes (1769; from The Correspondence of Thomas Gray, vol. iii, ed. P. Toynbee and L. Whibley, Oxford, 1935) Thomas Gray (1716–71), poet and scholar, kept a journal of his 1769 tour of the Westmorland Lakes in the form of...

Thomas Gray und Die Gatiung Der Elegie

POETICA ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-347
Author(s):  
Edgar Mertner
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray and the Dedicatory Muse

ELH ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wallace Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Gray

‘Freeman stand, or freeman die’: liberty and slavery

2018 ◽  
pp. 194-216
Author(s):  
Alison Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Common Currency ◽  
Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽  
Thomas Gray ◽  
True State ◽  
Working People ◽  
The Face ◽  
English Nationalism

The words ‘liberty’ or ‘freedom’ feature in forty-three poems in this collection, indicative of the centrality of this theme to the radical discourse of the day. In an era of almost unprecedented repression and the curtailment of rights, working people wished to rid themselves of their chains and reclaim their lost liberties, as a way of asserting English nationalism in the face of a ‘foreign’ monarchy. The twelve poems and songs in this section celebrate both the forthcoming return of liberty, presented as a goddess, and Henry Hunt as liberty’s human representative. The restoration of liberty as an end to slavery is a common trope within English radical discourse and poems often depict the radical patriot endeavouring to rescue his country from an imposed and unnatural tyranny and return it to its true state of liberty; however, this trope predates the era of revolution when such rhetoric was common currency and this section explores the prevalence of the theme of liberty in the mid-eighteenth century and the subsequent influence of William Collins and Thomas Gray on the poems in this collection. The introduction also seeks to explain the lack of references to the transatlantic slave trade in these poems at a time when the issue of rights was at the fore. It includes poems written by Samuel Bamford and the Spencean Robert Wedderburn.

Medievalist double consciousness and the production of difference: Medieval bards, cultural memory and nationalist fantasy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Davies
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
English Poet ◽  
Thomas Gray ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter interrogates the relationship between medievalist cultural memory and nationalism in Britain and Europe. Exploring work by the English poet Thomas Gray, the Welsh poet and critic Evan Evans, the Hungarian poet Janos Arany, the Icelandic scholar Grímur Jonsson Thorkelín and the Danish poet, historian and educator Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, this chapter explores how ideas of the medieval past are used to generate ideas of community and exclude some people, ideas and traditions from the future.

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