Thomas Gray Page

Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 - July 30, 1771)



Poetry:

• "The Bard. A Pindaric Ode" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
• "Elegy in St St Stephen's Churchyard" by , a parody of Gray's Elegy (BBC);
• "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (Wikipedia);
• "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
• "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Annotated with a commentary by Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto);
• "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
• "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
• Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (Poetry Archives);
• On the Death of Richard West (Poetry Archives);

Prose:

• "Essay on the Philosophy of Lord Bolingbroke" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
• "Observations on English Metre" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
• "Some Remarks on the Poems of John Lydgate" Annotated version (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);

Letters:

• From letter of October 31, 1734, to Horace Walpole (The Independent, October 2006, Find Articles);
• From letter of August 12, 1760, to John Clarke (The Independent, August 2005, Find Articles);
• From letters of October 3rd and 8th, 1769, to Dr. Thomas Warton (Norton Anthology);

Biographical:

• The Life of Gray by Samuel Johnson (Jack Lynch, Rutgers University);
• The Life of Thomas Gray by Rev. John Mitford. Facsimile of The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, Little Brown and Company, 1862 (Making of America Books);

Essays:

• The Elegy and the Internet by Gilbert Wesley Purdy (Virtual Grub Street);
• Elegy unto epitaph: Print culture and commenorative practice in Gray's "elegy written in a country churchyard" by Michele Turner Sharp (Papers on Language and Literature, January 2002, Find Articles);
• "Gray, the marketplace, and the masculine poet" by Linda Zionkowski (Criticism, Fall 1993, Find Articles);

Reviews:

• Gray Agonistes: Thomas Gray and Masculine Friendship by Robert F. Gleckner. Reviewed by Daniel E. White (Criticism, Winter 1998, Find Articles);
• Thomas Gray: A Life by Robert L. Mack. Reviewed by Frank McCormick (H-Net);
• Thomas Gray: Contemporary Essays. Ed. W. B. Hutchings and William Ruddick. Reviewed by Duncan Wu (Oxford University personal web pages, 1996);

Images:

• Holograph images of the Eton College manuscript of the "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". Enlarged images: P. 1, P.2, P. 3, P. 4 (Gutenberg);
• Holograph images of title page of Poems by Mr. Gray (1768) and a page of text (Glasgow University Library);
• Portrait of Thomas Gray by Benjamin Wilson (Yale University Library);

Articles:

Miscellaneous:

• Chronology of the Life and Works of Thomas Gray (The Thomas Gray Archive, University of Oxford);
• Buckinghamshire Literary Map: Stoke Poges and Thomas Gray with photos (BBC);
• Thomas Gray Monument at Stoke Poges (Poet's Graves);

Other VGS Author Pages:

• Wendell Berry;
• Claudia Emerson
• John Keats;
• Ted Kooser;
• Giacomo Leopardi;
• Federico Garcia Lorca;
• Lisel Mueller (Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry);
• Pablo Neruda; and,
• Percy Bysshe Shelley.