"I do not love notes, though you see I had resolved
to put two or three. They are signs of weakness and obscurity. If a thing
cannot be understood without them, it had better be not understood at
all."
Letter to Horace Walpole, 11 July 1757
Welcome to The Thomas Gray Archive
(US server)!
The Thomas Gray Archive is a long-term research effort dedicated
to studying the life and work of eighteenth-century poet Thomas Gray. The Archive, located at
the University of Oxford, strives to preserve and to make accessible a
comprehensive corpus of high-quality, electronic primary
sources and secondary materials. By using open,
interoperable standards and formats, the Archive offers a structured
platform for scholarly communication and collaboration and is developing as a
living forum with the discussions, annotations, and contributions shared by
the scholarly community. The Thomas Gray Archive is a freely
accessible, educational resource solely intended for teaching, research, and
study.
The Archive consists of two major sections: the Primary Texts section and the Materials section. The former contains
searchable electronic editions of Gray's complete poetry with critical apparatus and extensive
collaborative commentary (currently
3510
variants, notes, and queries), selected prose
works, a browsable calendar to Gray's complete correspondence, a concordance to the poetry, a digital library of primary sources (currently
6071
pages) and audio-visual media, and a finding
aid to Gray MSS. The latter section is comprised entirely of contextual
materials, such as criticism, a
biographical sketch, an introductory chronological table of Gray's life and work,
a glossary of names and terms, a select bibliography, a picture gallery, and links to related online resources.
Alexander Huber, Editor.
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