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The Thomas Gray Archive : Materials : Biography |
 | | The "Ode on the Spring" and the "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" in particular revealed his ease and felicity of expression, his wistful melancholy, and the evocative powers he possessed. |
 | | "The Progress of Poesy" in which, and in "The Bard", the imagery is largely furnished forth by Gray's early romantic love of wild and rugged landscape, mountain and torrent. |
 | | Could love and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd; |
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