Gray Flashcards
1
Q
What do we call the age of poetry in which Pope is writing?
A
Augustan
2
Q
What was a big difference between Gray and the Romantics concerning poetic diction?
A
Gray believed that “the language of the age” was not the language of poetry – Wordsworth disagreed, and his Theory of Poetic Diction is one of the main tenets of “Preface to Lyrical Ballads.”
3
Q
Famous quote?
A
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air
4
Q
When was this poem written?
A
1751
5
Q
What were this group of poets known as?
A
Sentimental or graveyard poets
