Gray

Question 1

What do we call the age of poetry in which Pope is writing?

Answer 1

Augustan

Question 2

What was a big difference between Gray and the Romantics concerning poetic diction?

Answer 2

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.”

Question 3

Famous quote?

Answer 3

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen

And waste its sweetness on the desert air

Question 4

When was this poem written?

Answer 4

1751

Question 5

What were this group of poets known as?

Answer 5

Sentimental or graveyard poets