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The Thomas Gray Archive
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Digital Library

[Designs by Mr. R. Bentley (1753), page [5]] The Archive's digital library holds digital versions of important primary literature, currently comprising printed works and audio-visual media, but will ultimately include Gray's manuscripts. It is intended to facilitate, optimize, and preserve access to digital materials via an easy-to-use interface. A full bibliographic record and an electronic table of contents are available for each of the printed works in the digital library. The 9627 pages in the library are accessed via a standard page-turner interface, which also includes a drop-down menu for direct access to pages. All page images are also accessible via thumbnails. While this Web page is the main entry point to the digital library collection, there are links to individual media, editions, sections, full-text, and pages images available from many of the Web pages in The Thomas Gray Archive. Readers are also referred to ECCO's digital library of Gray's works (subscription required) and to Gray books on Google Books. Please note that the Archive publishes the digital versions on this Web site for educational purposes only, see the individual items for information on copyright holders. If any material on this site inadvertently infringes copyright, please contact the editor. The audio-visual media have been encoded in RealMedia® streaming format and should be playable with a variety of players. Please see this Help Desk section for more information.

Published works

  • Poems
    • Editions of Gray's poems
      • 1751: An Elegy wrote in a Country Church Yard. London: R. Dodsley, 1751.
            [11p., page images only; see Northup 492.]
      • 1753: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London: R. Dodsley, 1753.
            [47p., page images only; see Northup 178.]
      • 1757: Odes by Mr. Gray. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757.
            [19p., page images only; see Northup 180.]
      • 1762: An ELEGY written in a Country Church Yard. With an HYMN to Adversity. By Mr. Gray. London: J. James, 1762.
            [8p., page images only; see Northup 183.]
      • 1765: A Collection of Poems in six volumes. By several hands. London: J. Dodsley, 1765 [1st ed. 1758].
            [47p., page images only; see Northup 186.]
        • Vol. II. [1st ed. 1748] (Gray's poems only)
        • Vol. IV. [1st ed. 1755] (Gray's poems only)
        • Vol. VI. [1st ed. 1758] (Gray's poems only)
      • 1768: Poems by Mr. Gray. A new edition. London: J. Dodsley, 1768 [1st ed. 1768].
            [126p., page images only; see Northup 53.]
      • 1768: Poems by Mr. Gray. Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1768.
            [68p., page images only; see Northup 56.]
      • 1769: Ode performed in the Senate-house at Cambridge... Cambridge: J. Archdeacon, 1769.
            [8p., page images only; see Northup 1401.]
      • 1771: Poems by Mr. Gray. A new edition. London: B. Long and T. Pridden, 1771.
            [106p., page images only.]
      • 1774?: The Candidate: By Mr. Gray. [Strawberry Hill: Strawberry Hill Press, 1774.]
            [2p., page images only.]
      • 1775: The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York[; London]: J. Todd; J. Dodsley, 1775.
            [112p., page images only; see Northup 13.]
      • 1775: Poems by Mr. Gray. A new edition. Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1775.
            [156p., page images only.]
      • 1776: Poems by Mr. Gray. A new edition. London: J. Murray, 1776.
            [150p., page images only; see Northup 63. See also John Murray's Letter to W. Mason, A.M. (1777)]
      • 1782: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray [and Richard West]. Edinburg: Apollo Press, 1782.
            [110p., page images only; see Northup 69a.]
      • 1787?: The Grave, by Robert Blair; to which is added Gray's Elegy. London: Scatcherd & Whitaker, [1787].
            [54p., page images only; see Northup 533.]
      • 1798: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. London: Ann Lemoine, 1798.
            [70p., page images only]
      • 1799: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. London: C. Cooke, [1799].
            [79p., page images only; see Northup 92?]
      • 1799: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, LL.B. London: [C. Whittingham] For J. Scatcherd, 1799.
            [247p., page images only; see Northup 84]
      • 1800: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, LL.B. Second edition. London: C. Whittingham, 1800 [1st ed. 1799].
            [287p., page images only; see Northup 85]
      • 1816: The Works of Thomas Gray. Vol. I. containing The Poems, with critical notes; A Life of the Author; and an Essay on his Poetry; By the Rev. John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816.
            [433p., page images only; see Northup 19]
      • 1835-43: The Works of Thomas Gray. Volume I. Ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London: William Pickering, 1836.
            [363p., page images only; see Northup 30]
      • 1891: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: English and Latin. Edited with an Introduction, Life, Notes, and a Bibliography by John Bradshaw. London: George Bell & Sons, 1891.
            [388p., e-text only; see Northup 170.]
    • Translations/Imitations/Parodies of Gray's poems
      • 1772: Elegia Inglese, del signor Tommaso Gray, sopra un cimitero di campagna, trasportata in verso italiano dall' [Abate Melchior Cesarotti]. Padua: Giuseppe Comino, 1772.
            [23p., page images only; see Northup 796.]
      • 1775: The Latin Odes of Mr. Gray, in English verse, with An Ode on the Death of a favorite Spaniel [by E. B. G.]. London: J. Ridley, 1775.
            [15p., page images only; see Northup 338.]
      • 1776: A Parody on Gray's Elegy. By An Oxonian. [An Evening Contemplation in a College. By John Duncombe.] London: J. Wheble, 1776.
            [11p., page images only; see Northup 898.]
      • 1776: Elegia di Tommaso Gray, poeta inglese, per esso scritta in un cimitero campestre, tradotta in versi italiani [da Giuseppe Torelli]. Verona: Gli Eredi di Agostino Carattoni, 1776.
            [22p., page images only; see Northup 799.]
      • 1788: Élégie composée dans un cimetière de campagne, traduite en françois, vers pour vers, de l'anglois de Gray, par P. G. D. B. ... On y a joint une traduction de la même piéce, en vers latins, par un membre de l'Université de Cambridge. Croydon: imprimié aux dépens du traducteur françois et se vend chez T. Hookham; P. Elmsly; C. Dilly; J. de Boffe; J. Hall; R. Hawes, Croydon; et chez le traducteur ou meme lieu, 1788.
            [25p., page images only; see Northup 742.]
  • Prose Works
    • 1787: A Supplement to the Tour Through Great-Britain, containing a Catalogue of the antiquities, houses, parks, plantations, scenes, and situations, in England and Wales... By The Late Mr. Gray... To which are now added, by another Hand, Several Additions... London: G. Kearsley, 1787.
          [128p., page images only; see Northup 465.]
    • 1835-43: The Works of Thomas Gray. Volume IV. "Criticisms on Architecture and Painting during a Tour in Italy". Ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London: William Pickering, 1836.
          [81p., page images only; see Northup 30]
    • 1911: Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Clark Sutherland Northup. Boston and London: D. C. Heath & Co., 1911.
          [436p., e-text only; see Northup 336.]
  • Letters
    • 1775: The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York[; London]: J. Todd; J. Dodsley, 1775.
          [416p., page images only; see Northup 13.]
    • 1816: The Works of Thomas Gray. Vol. II. containing The Letters; with important additions and corrections from His Own Manuscripts. Selected and edited by the Rev. John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816.
          [609p., page images only; see Northup 19]
    • 1835-43: The Works of Thomas Gray. Volumes II-V. Ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London: William Pickering, 1835-43.
          [1296p., page images only; see Northup 30, 31]
    • 1853: The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason, with notes and illustrations by the Rev. John Mitford. London: Richard Bentley, 1853.
          [530p., page images only; see Northup 1236.]
    • 1890: Gray and his Friends: Letters and Relics, in great part hitherto unpublished, edited by Duncan C. Tovey. Cambridge: University Press, 1890.
          [329p., page images only; see Northup 45.]
    • 1900-1912: The Letters of Thomas Gray, including the correspondence of Gray and Mason, edited by Duncan C. Tovey, editor of "Gray and His Friends," etc. London: George Bell and Sons, 1900-1912.
          [1290p., page images only; see Northup 1226.]
    • 1915: The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771), in two volumes, chronologically arranged and edited with introduction, notes, and index by Paget Toynbee. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915.
          [875p., page images only; see Northup 1248.]

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