English 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Bsc Young Boys, Epigram, Undeceived
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He became friends with wadpole here he studied law at cambridge, but then imposed a self imposed program of reading and scientific reading. Hie reading had ancient greek, latin, middle english poetry, medieval history, zoology, etc. He was a bit of an eccentric, but would become a lyric poet. Only 13 of his poems were published during his lifetime. He was very critical of himself, and he was quite shy, and thus wasn"t interested in the public notoriety as a public writer. 1759-1762 he spent three years researching at the british museum. Poems by mister grey was published in 1760. Ode on a distant prospect of eaton college. As a poetic genre it has classical origins, and engagement with greek and roman literature. it is a classical poetic form with certain characteristics. It is a formal or ceremonial lyric of a personal nature. It generally celebrates a topic, a person, a place, a thing, but generally they express strong feelings.
