SOURCE: "Thomas Gray and the Dedicatory Muse," in ELH, Vol. 54, No. 2, Summer, 1987, pp. 277-98.
In the following essay, Jackson provides a detailed examination of Gray's treatment of the themes of desire and authority in his poetry.
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