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• [AbM_1971] Abrams, M. H.: Natural supernaturalism: tradition and revolution in romantic literature. New York: W. W. Norton, 1971.
• [AmA_1945] Ambrogi, A.: Thomas Gray e la sua avventura romana. Roma: Libreria dell'800 Editrice, 1945.
• [ArJ_1966] Arthos, John: The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry. University of Michigan publications / Language and literature, 24. Reprinted edition. London: Cass & Co., 1966.
• [BaW_1946] Bate, Walter J.: From Classic to Romantic: premises of taste in eighteenth-century England. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1946. [Reprinted ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1961.]
• [BeR_1895] Benson, Arthur Christopher: Thomas Gray. Eton: R.I. Drake, 1895.
• [BlH_1986] Bloom, Harold (ed.): Poets of Sensibility and the Sublime. New York: Chelsea House Publ., 1986.
• [BlH_1987] Bloom, Harold (ed.): Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House Publ., 1987.
• [BrI_1962] Bredvold, Louis I.: The Literature of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 1660-1798. London: Collier Books, 1962, pp. 113-118 ("Collins and Gray").
• [BrK_1920] Brooke, Stopford A.: Naturalism in English Poetry. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1920, ch. III "Collins and Gray", pp. 42-65.
• [BrM_1991] Brown, Marshall: Preromanticism. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991, ch. 2 and 3, pp. 24-29, 42-48.
• [CaT_1973] Carper, Thomas R.: The One Writing of Thomas Gray: A Reading of all the Poetry. Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1973.
• [CeD_1946] Cecil, David, Lord: The Poetry of Thomas Gray. Warton Lecture on English Poetry, read 21st March 1945. Proceedings of the British Academy, London (Founded 1901), vol. 31, 1945. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1946 [1st ed. 1945] [reprinted London: G. Cumberlege, [1946] and Folcroft: Folcroft Library Editions, 1974]. Review: George Jackson in English 6 (1946), p. 38.
• [CoL_1985] Conti Camaiora, Luisa: Gray -- Keats -- Hopkins: Poetry and the Poetic Presence.. Lecce: Milella, [1985], chapter I "Thomas Gray: Two Early Odes and the Elegy", pp. 11-57. Review: Marialuisa Bignami in Modern Language Review (London) 84(2) (1989), pp. 444-445.
• [CoL_2003] Conti Camaiora, Luisa: Virtuous texts: the idea of virtue in poems by Pope, Gray and Goldsmith. Milan: Vita e pensiero, 2003.
• [DaD_1963] Davie, Donald: The Language of Science and the Language of Literature, 1700-1740. London: Sheed and Ward, 1963.
• [D/J_1974] Downey, James and Ben Jones (eds.): Fearful Joy: Papers from the Thomas Gray Bicentenary Conference at Carleton University[, 1971]. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1974. [Includes bibliographical references, illustrations and index]. Reviews: C. J. Rawson in Modern Philology 76(2) (Nov. 1978), p. 202, Joseph A. Wittreich in Blake 8(4) (1975), p. 141, James Gray in English Studies in Canada (Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton) 1 (1975), pp. 111-115.
• [EdR_1992] Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning: Wonted Fires: A Reading of Thomas Gray. Salzburg studies in English literature. Romantic reassessment, 111. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press; Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1992.
• [EmW_1938] Empson, William: English Pastoral Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton, 1938.
• [EnJ_1981] Engell, James: The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1981.
• [FrB_1977] Fruchter, Barry George: Studies in the English elegy. Univ. Diss. Microfilm edition. State University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y., 1977.
• [FuR_1933] Fukuhara, Rintaro and Henry Bergen: An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray. The three manuscripts. Primrose Hill: E. Walters and G. Miller, 1933.
• [FuR_1933a] Fukuhara, Rintaro: A Bibliographical Study of Thomas Gray. With an appendix: Gray's marginalia on cookery, printed for the first time from the MS. [S.l.]: [s.n.], 1933. [A bibliography, with explanatory notes in Japanese, with a portrait]
• [FuR_1959] Fukuhara, Rintaro: English poems and translations of Richard West: a collection, with introduction & appendix "Thomas Gray and Richard West", 1959. [Tokyo]: [Kyoritsu Joshi Daigaku], [1959]. [Added t.p. in Japanese, Introd. and appendix in Japanese and English]
• [FuR_1960] Fukuhara, Rintaro: Essays on Thomas Gray. Tokyo: Tokyo UP, 1960.
• [GaG_1995] Galigani, Giuseppe: Tra poesia e pittura: Il Bardo di Thomas Gray e le arti figurative. Nuovi saggi, 126. Parma: Pratiche, c1995. [Contains illustrations, the text of the poem in English and in Italian translation, bibliographical references (pp. [121]-123), and index]. Reviews: C. Maria Laudando in Istituto Universitario Orientale (Napoli): Annali / Anglistica 38(1-2) (1995), pp. 219-222, Review in Comparatistica 7 (1995), pp. 177-179.
• [G/W/F_2008] Thomas Gray: "Elegy in a Country Churchyard", Latin translations 1762-2001, ed. by Donald Gibson, Peter Wilkinson, and Stephen French. Orpington: The Holden Press, 2008.
• [GlR_1997] Gleckner, Robert F.: Gray Agonistes: Thomas Gray and Masculine Friendship. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. [Includes bibliographical references and index. The book examines in detail the influence which Milton's poetry and life had on Gray and the relationship which Gray had with his friend Richard West, also a poet and admirer of Milton]. Reviews: Suvir Kaul in Modern Philology 97(3) (Feb. 2000), pp. 468-470, M. Wechselblatt in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 98(1) (Jan. 1999), pp. 118-121, M. Walsh in The Review of English Studies 50(197) (Feb. 1999), p. 109, Daniel E. White in Criticism (Detroit) 40(1) (Winter 1998), pp. 145-148, John Sitter in South Atlantic Review: the publication of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (University, AL) (formerly South Atlantic Bulletin) 62(3) (1997), pp. 132-134, Heidi Thomson in Modern Language Review 93(4) (1998), pp. 1088-1089, William Levine in Eighteenth-Century Studies (American Soc. for Eighteenth Century Studies, Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC) 36(3) (2003), pp. 429-436.
• [GoM_1988] Golden, Morris: Thomas Gray. Updated edition. Twayne's English authors series, TEAS 6. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988 [1st ed. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964]. [Contains illustration, bibliography (pp. 144-151) and index]. Reviews by R. George Thomas in Modern language review 62(2) (Apr. 1967), p. 318, M. Bell in College English (National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL) XXVII (1966), p. 435, Paul Ranger (of updated edition) in Notes and Queries: for readers and writers, collectors and librarians (Oxford) 37(3), pp. 349-350.
• [GrH_1925] Grierson, H. J. C.: The Background of English Literature and Other Collected Essays and Addresses. London: Chatto, 1925, pp. 200-255 ("Blake and Gray").
• [HaE_2000] Haan, Estelle: Thomas Gray's Latin poetry: some classical, neo-Latin and vernacular contexts. Bruxelles: Latomus revue d'études latines, 2000.
• [HaP_1990] Hansen, Klaus P. (ed.): Empfindsamkeiten. Passauer Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium, 2 (1990). Passau: Rothe, 1990.
• [HeD_1989] Heller, Deborah C.: The Evolution of the Poet's Task in the Later Eighteenth Century: A Study of Gray, Collins and Cowper. Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1989. .
• [HiD_1979] Hignett, D. J.: Elegy written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray, and, The deserted village by Oliver Goldsmith: GCE set book notes for advanced students. Formby (Formby Fields, Formby, Merseyside): Hignett School Services, c1979.
• [HiF_1949] Hilles, Frederick W. (ed.): The Age of Johnson: essays presented to Chauncey Brewster Tinker. New Haven: Yale UP, 1949.
• [H/B_1965] Hilles, Frederick W. and Harold Bloom (eds.): From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle. New York: Oxford UP, 1965.
• [HoG_1953] Hough, Graham: The Romantic Poets. London: Hutchinson, 1953, ch. I "Gray", pp. 7-24.
• [HuJ_1976] Hunt, John Dixon: The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening During the Eighteenth Century. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1976, ch. 4.
• [H/R_1993] Hutchings, W. B. and William Ruddick (eds.): Thomas Gray: Contemporary Essays. Liverpool English texts and studies, [25]. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1993. [Includes bibliographical references and index of proper names]. Reviews: M. Bignami in Modern Language Review 91(3) (Jul. 1996), pp. 703-704, Duncan Wu in Romanticism (Edinburgh) 2(1) (1996), pp. 123-125, Suvir Kaul in ANQ 8(2) (1995), pp. 49-51, John Chalker in Critical Survey (Oxford) 7(2) (1995), pp. 230-231, Christopher Decker in Essays in Criticism: a quarterly journal founded by F. W. Bateson (Oxford) 45(3) (1995), pp. 257-263, Robin Dix in Durham University Journal (Dept of English Studies, Univ. of Durham) 56(1) (1995), pp. 169-170, Philip Martin in Byron Journal (Byron Soc., London) 23 (1995), p. 100, Roger Robinson in Charles Lamb Bulletin: journal of the Charles Lamb Society (London) 87 (1994), pp. 122-123.
• [IrW_1955] Irving, William Henry: The Providence of Wit in the English Letter Writers. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1955, chapter VII, pp. 228-245.
• [JeL_1990] Jestin, Loftus: The answer to the lyre: Richard Bentley's illustrations for Thomas Gray's poems. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. [Includes a facsimile of Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray, and illustrations]. Review by Sean Shesgreen in Notes and Queries: for readers and writers, collectors and librarians (Oxford) 39(1) (1992), pp. 108-109.
• [JsA_1966] Johnston, Arthur: Thomas Gray and The Bard. An inaugural lecture delivered at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wednesday, 2nd February, 1966. Cardiff: Wales UP, 1966 [i.e. 1967].
• [KaS_1986] Kaul, Suvir: A Solitary Fly: Thomas Gray and the constructions of poetic authority. Unpub. univ. diss., Cornell Univ., 1986. [Abstr. in Dissertation Abstracts International (Ann Arbor, MI) (47) 3048A.]
• [KaS_1992] Kaul, Suvir: Thomas Gray and Literary Authority: A Study in Ideology and Poetics. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1992. [Contains bibliography (pp. [253]-262) and index]. Also published as Thomas Gray and literary authority: ideology and poetics in Eighteenth-century England. Delhi and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992. Reviews by Richard Terry in British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford) 18(1) (1995), p. 94, John Lucas in In-between: essays & studies in literary criticism (Dept of English, RLA College, Univ. of New Delhi) 3(2) (1994), pp. 123-127.
• [KnR_1972] Knighton, Robert T.: A Genius Truly Inclined to Philosophy: Thomas Gray and Platonism. Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1972.
• [LeR_1989] Lessenich, Rolf P.: Aspects of English PreRomanticism. Köln [etc.]: Böhlau, 1989.
• [LeS_1971] Lewis, W. S.: Thomas Gray, 1716-1771. The R. A. Neil lecture, 1971. Cambridge: Pembroke College, 1971.
• [LoR_1973] Lonsdale, Roger: The poetry of Thomas Gray: versions of the self. Chatterton lecture on an English poet, read 21 February 1973. "From the Proceedings of the British Academy volume 59." London: Oxford UP, 1973. [Includes bibliographical references]. Review by Clair Lamont in Notes and Queries (London) 23 (1976), pp. 374-376.
• [LoW_1969] Lowenstein, Amy: Annals of the Poor: Social Fact and Artistic Response in Gray, Goldsmith, Cowper, Crabbe, Blake, Burns. Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1969.
• [MaB_1997] McCarthy, B. Eugene: Thomas Gray: The Progress of a Poet. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; London: Associated UPes, 1997. [Includes bibliographical references (pp. 257-270) and index]. Reviews in Choice / Monthly 35(10) (1998), pp. 1708-1709, Heidi Thomson in Yearbook of English Studies (Modern Humanities Research Assn) (Leeds) 30 (2000), p. 314, William Levine in Eighteenth-Century Studies (American Soc. for Eighteenth Century Studies, Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC) 36(3) (2003), pp. 429-436.
• [MaF_1973] McDermott, Francis: William Penn, Thomas Gray, and an account of the historical association of Stoke Poges. Specially compiled for the Penn-Gray Society by F. McDermott. With a reproduction of the original fair copy of Gray's Elegy in the poet's own handwriting and 27 illus. including 20 photos by the author. Folcroft: Folcroft Library Editions, 1973 [reprint of the 1930 ed. printed for private circulation by W. H. Smith & Son Ltd., the Arden Press, London] [Reprinted Norwood: Norwood Editions, 1976]. [Includes illustrations]
• [MaR_1996] McGann, Jerome J.: The Poetics of Sensibility: a revolution in literary style. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996, ch. 3, pp. 24-32.
• [MaS_1957] Mackerness, Eric David: The progress of an italophile: Thomas Gray and music. Reprinted from Italian Studies, vol. 12. [S.l.]: [s.n.], 1957.
• [MhK_1946] Marsh, Kathleen Mary: A study of Thomas Gray based on his letter. Thesis (B.A.) 755, University of Liverpool, [Liverpool], 1946.
• [MnR_1934] Martin, Roger: Essai sur Thomas Gray. These pour le Doctorat es Lettres presente a la Faculte des Lettres de l'Universite de Paris par Roger Martin. Toulouse: Imprimerie Regionale; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press; Paris: Les Presses Universitaires de France, 1934 [reprinted St. Clair Shores: Scholarly Press, 1970]. [Includes bibliographical references and index]. Reviews: Frederick T. Wood in Englische Studien 71 (1936), p. 262, Review in Revue anglo-americaine 13 (1935), p. 153.
• [MoO_1934] Micale, Olga: Thomas Gray e la sua influenza sulla letteratura italiana. Con prefazione di Natale Busetto. Catania: Studio editoriale moderno, 1934. Review: Joseph G. Fucilla in Journal of English and Germanic Philology (April 1935), p. 277.
• [MiS_1979] Millner, Stuart A.: Thomas Gray's Welsh and Norse Poetry. Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1979.
• [MoT_1977] Mooney, Thomas Francis: Pre-Romantic, Romantic, Post-Romantic: Four Elegies. Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1977.
• [MuJ_1988] Mullan, John: Sentiment and Sociability: The language of feeling in the 18th century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
• [NeV_1995] Newey, Vincent: Centring the Self: Subjectivity, Society, and Reading from Thomas Gray to Thomas Hardy. The nineteenth century (Scolar) series. Aldershot: Scolar Press; Brookfield: Ashgate, 1995. [Includes bibliography (pp. [239]-265)]. Reviews: F. Garber in Studies in Romanticism 37(2) (Summer 1998), pp. 281-285, Susan Rosenbaum in Keats Shelley Journal 46 (1997), pp. 210-211, Michael Wiley in The Wordsworth Circle 27(4) (Fall 1996), pp. 191-193, M. O'Neill in Durham University Journal 87(2) (Jul. 1995), pp. 394-395, Kelsey Thornton in Romanticism 5(1) (1999), pp. 115-116.
• [NoE_1903] Norton, C. E.: The Poet Gray as a Naturalist. Boston: 1903.
• [NoM_1990] Novak, M. E. (introd.): Context, Influence, and Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Mem. Lib., Univ. of California, 1990.
• [QuV_1996] Quinn, V. R.: A new approach to the writing of Thomas Gray. Unpub. univ. diss., Univ. of Cambridge, 1996. [Abstr. in Index to Theses accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland (and the Council for National Academic Awards) (ASLIB) (London) (45) 1996, 12144.], 1996.
• [RaM_2005] Raymond, Mark: Marked by Melancholy: The Character of the Pensive Text in Gray and Keats. Univ. Diss., New York University. New York: New York University, 2005. [Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 66(4) (Oct. 2005), p. 1364.]
• [ReA_1962] Reed, Amy Louise: The Background of Gray's "Elegy": A Study in the Taste for Melancholy Poetry, 1700-1751. New York: Russell & Russell, 1962 [1st ed. 1924].
• [RoC_1952] Roberts, Sydney Castle: Thomas Gray of Pembroke. W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture, 13; Glasgow University Publications, 93. Glasgow: Jackson, Son, 1952 [reprinted Folcroft: Folcroft Library Editions, 1973, Norwood: Norwood Editions, 1978]. Review: C. J. Sisson in Modern language review 49 (1954).
• [RoE_1981] Rothstein, Eric: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780, The Routledge History of English Poetry, vol 3. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, pp. 135-160.
• [ScJ_1991] Scodel, Joshua: The English poetic epitaph: commemoration and conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth. Ithaca ; London: Cornell University Press, 1991, chapters 10 and 11 (view e-text excerpts).
• [SiJ_1982] Sitter, John: Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1982.
• [SnN_1965] Snyder, Edward D.: The Celtic Revival in English Literature. Gloucester/Mass.: 1965.
• [SpP_1982] Spacks, Patricia Meyer and W. B. Carnochan (eds.): A Distant Prospect: Eighteenth-Century Views of Childhood. Los Angeles: Clark Memorial Lib., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1982.
• [SpS_s.a.] Springall, Stephen: Thomas Gray, Stoke Poges, and "Elegy written in a country church yard": an enquiry. [S.l.]: [s.n.], [s.a.].
• [StH_1941] Starr, Herbert W.: Gray as a literary critic. Gettysburg: Times and News Publ., 1941 [reprinted Folcroft: Folcroft Library Editions, 1974].
• [StH_1968] Starr, Herbert W. (ed.): Twentieth century interpretations of Gray's Elegy. A collection of critical essays. Twentieth century interpretations series. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968, also as Thomas Gray: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". Columbus: Merrill, 1968. [Includes bibliography and chronology of important dates]
• [StP_1967] Stone, P. W. K.: The Art of Poetry 1750-1820: Theories of Composition and Style in the Late Neo-Classic and Early Romantic Periods. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.
• [SwJ_1970] Swearingen, James E.: The Critical Reputation of Gray's Poems: 1742-1884.. Univ. Diss. Microform edition. Minneapolis, Minn.: U. of Minnesota, 1970.
• [TaI_1968] Tayler, Irene: Visionary Forms Dramatic: William Blake's Illustrations to the Poetry of Thomas Gray. Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1968 [republished as Blake's illustrations to the poems of Gray. London: OUP; Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971].
• [TiG_1942] Tillotson, G.: Essays in Criticism and Research. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1942, pp. 117-123 ("On Gray's Letters"), 124-126 ("Gray the Scholar-Poet").
• [TiG_1961] Tillotson, G.: Augustan Studies. London: The Athlone Press, 1961, chapters IX ("Gray's 'Ode on the Spring'") and X ("Gray's 'Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes'"), pp. 204-215, 216-223.
• [VaF_1982] Vaughan, Frank A.: Blake's illustrations to the poetry of Thomas Gray: a movement toward eternity. Authorized facsimile printed by microfilm/xerography of doctoral dissertation, University of California, Riverside, 1980 Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1982.
• [VaF_1996] Vaughan, Frank A.: Again to the life of eternity: William Blake's illustrations to the poems of Thomas Gray. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP; London: Associated UPes, 1996. [Includes 116 p. of illustrations, bibliographical references (pp. 126-133), and index]. Reviews: C. Heppner in Blake. An Illustrated Quarterly 31(1) (Summer 1997), pp. 24-29, Bruce Tice in Antiquarian Book Monthly 23(10) (1996), p. 26.
• [WaJ_1989] Watson, J. R. (ed.): Pre-Romanticism in English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century: The Poetic Art and Significance of Thomas Gray, Collins, Goldsmith, Cowper, Crabbe. Casebook series. Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1989.
• [WaS_1973] Wayman, Stephen R.: The Living Lyre: A Study of the Poetry of Thomas Gray. Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1973.
• [WeH_1991] Weinfeld, Henry: The Poet Without a Name: Gray's "Elegy" and the Problem of History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991. Reviews by Dennis Taylor in Journal of English and Germanic Philology: a quarterly devoted to the English, German, and Scandinavian languages and literatures (Urbana, IL) 93(3) (1994), pp. 439-443, Joshua Scodel in Modern Philology: a journal devoted to research in medieval and modern literature (Chicago) 91(1) (1993), pp. 98-102.
• [WhB_1988] Wheatley, Philip: The Form, Meaning, and Context of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Britain, with particular reference to the literature of the period 1740-94. Thesis (D.Phil.) University of Oxford, Oxford, 1988.
• [WiA_1980] Wiesenthal, Alan Joel: The Latin Poetry of the English Augustans. Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1980.
• [WoE_1973] Wolfe, William R.: Thomas Gray: The Poet as Letter-Writer. Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1973.
• [WoT_1998] Woodman, Thomas (ed.): Early Romantics: Perspectives in British Poetry from Pope to Wordsworth. Houndmills: MacMillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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