EXAM - English literature 2
Edward Young: The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality – melancholy
meditations
Robert Blair: the mood of Youngs and his major poems are predominantly sombre, reflective, melancholic,
and moral. Both Central members of a loose groupng „The Graveyard Poets”. The Grave – a dramatic
evocation of the horrors of corruption and of the solitude of death.
Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard – draws together feelings of the era. Sense of
isolation, withrawal into inner self, poet as man of feeling meditating on obscurity and death, time and
history, fame and passion.
32. The „Comedy of Manners” (Goldsmith, Sheridan)
Witty form of dramatic comedy, depicts and often satirizes the manners and affectations (teesklus) of
contemporary society. Concerned with social usage and whether or not characters meet certain social
standards. Often governing standard morally trivial, but exacting. The plot, usually concerning illegal love
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