SOURCE: "The Romantic Movement Exemplified in Gray," in The Beginnings of the Romantic Movement: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature, Gordian Press, 1968, pp. 155-70.
In the following essay, originally published in 1895, Phelps traces the transition in Gray's works from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.
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