Prose Works

The selected prose works in the Primary Texts section are intended to highlight Gray's critical efforts alongside his poetry and letter writing. Gray's life-long devotion to scholarship as a resident of Cambridge University resulted, much as with his poetry, in a slim yet important corpus. The close relationship between Gray's poetic and critical efforts is well-documented and finds expression in the essays below, many devoted to the understanding of the history and theory of lyric poetry as well as the analysis of individual texts. Equally, Gray's letters contain concise criticisms on a wide variety of topics, from philology, philosophy, and painting to archaeology, botany, and travel. The prose works in this section of the Archive are listed by title as well as by topic, they have been taken from C. S. Northup's edition of the Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), which also contains examples of Gray's criticisms in his letters.

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Prose works on architecture

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"Essay on Norman Architecture"

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Prose works on philosophy

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"Essay on the Philosophy of Lord Bolingbroke"

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