Editions of Gray's poetry (sorted alphabetically by editor)
[BrJ_1891]
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: English and Latin. Edited with
an introduction, life, notes and a bibliography by John Bradshaw. The
Aldine edition of the British poets series. London: George Bell & Sons,
1903 [1st edition 1891, reprinted 1901] (view
e-text).
[BwD_1990]
The works of Thomas Gray: containing his poems and correspondence,
with memoirs of his life and writings, in 2 vols. London: Harding,
Triphook, and Lepard, 1825. Microform edition. (Edition Corvey). Wildberg:
Belser Wiss. Dienst, 1989-1990. [Includes illustrations]
[ClW_1933]
Ode On the Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude. Left unfinished by Mr. Gray,
and since completed [by William Mason]. With an introduction by Leonard
Whibley. Ed. by William Andrews Clark. San Francisco: Printed for William
Andrews Clark by John Henry Nash, 1933. [With a facsimile of a pamphlet
version printed in 1774, containing Gray's text and the additions of William
Mason. Made from a copy in the library of William Andrews Clark]
[CrJ_1948]
Gray: Poetry and Prose. With essays by Johnson, Goldsmith and
others. With an Introduction and Notes by J. Crofts. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1928 [1st ed. 1926]. [Includes overview with timeline, letters and
secondary texts]. Review: Frederick T. Wood (of first edition) in
Englische Studien 66 (1931), p. 276.
[DrJ_1912]
Gray's Poems Letters and Essays. Introduction by John
Drinkwater. Biographical Notes by Lewis Gibbs. London [etc.]:
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1912 [reprinted 1955 etc]. [Contains an
introduction and biography]
[EpW_1959]
Poems of Thomas Gray. Edited by W. C. Eppstein. London and
Glasgow: Blackie & Son Ltd., 1959 [Includes introdution, few notes]
[FoU_1973]
Poems, 1768. Originally printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis,
Glasgow, 1768. A Scolar Press facsimile. Menston: Scolar Press, 1973.
[GoE_1884]
The Works of Thomas Gray: in prose and verse. Ed. by Edmund
Gosse, in four vols. London: MacMillan and Co., 1884 [revised edition
1912, reprinted London: MacMillan Co., 1902-6, reprinted New
York: AMS Press, 1968 [with index], unauthorized reprint New York: F. A.
Stokes company, [1895]]. [Includes editorial overviews and annotations
to the texts]. Reviews in The Quarterly review 439 (Apr.
1914), and in The Academy 27 (1885), p. 53.
[HaI_1997]
Thomas Gray: selected poems. [This selection by Ian Hamilton].
Bloomsbury poetry classics series. London: Bloomsbury, 1997.
[HeJ_1981]
Thomas Gray: Selected Poems. Ed. by John Heath-Stubbs.
Manchester: Carcanet New Press Ltd., 1981. [Includes editorial notes]
[JsA_1967]
Selected poems of Thomas Gray and William Collins. Ed. by
Arthur Johnston. Arnold's English texts series. London: Edward Arnold,
1967 [reprinted in the English library series, Columbia: U. of South
Carolina P., 1970]. Review: L. C. B. in Etudes anglaises 3 (Jul.
1967), p. 326.
[LoR_1969]
The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith.
Edited by Roger Lonsdale. Longmans' Annotated English Poets series.
London and Harlow: Longmans, 1969 [reprinted 1976]. [The most resourceful
edition of Gray's to this date, includes illustrations, bibliographical
references, index, and timeline]. Reviews: R. T. Davies in Modern
language review 65(4) (1970), p. 879, Review in Review of
English studies 21(84) (Nov. 1970), p. 506.
[LoR_1977]
Thomas Gray and William Collins: Poetical Works Ed. by Roger
Lonsdale. Oxford standard authors series. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP,
1977 [reprinted as Oxford Paperbacks, 1989]. [Includes illustrations,
bibliography (pp. 223-227), and index]. Reviews: A. J. Sambrook in
Modern language review 75(1) (Jan. 1980), p. 173, Review in
Review of English studies 29(116) (Nov. 1978), p. 483.
[MaL_1976]
Thomas Gray: An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard, the Eton
Manuscript & the First Edition, 1751. Reproduced in Facsimile
with an Introduction by Alastair MacDonald. Ilkley, Yorks. and London: The
Scolar Press, 1976. Review by Robert Birley in the Times Literary
Supplement (London) 27 May 1977, p. 660.
[MaT_1996]
Thomas Gray. Selected and edited by Robert L. Mack. Everyman's
Paperback Classics. Everyman's Poetry Library. London: J. M. Dent, 1996.
[MaW_1814]
The works of Thomas Gray with memoirs of his life and writings by William
Mason... Selected and arranged by Thomas James Mathias, 2 vols. London:
William Bulmer and Co., 1814.
[MeP_1991]
Poetic commonplace books and manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771
from Pembroke College, Cambridge. 14 microfilm reels, 35mm and
listing and guide to the microfilm collection. Published by
the University of Cambridge, Pembroke College. Reading: Adam Matthew
Publications, 1991 [2nd ed. 1999]. [Includes bibliographical references,
a printed handlist, and a detailed chronology of the long 18th century]
[MiJ_1843]
The works of Thomas Gray. Edited by John Mitford, 5 vols. London:
W. Pickering, 1835-1843 [2 vols. 1816].
[PhW_1894]
Selections from the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Gray. Ed. with
an introduction and notes by William Lyon Phelps. The Athenaeum press
series. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1894. [Includes bibliography (pp.
xxxv-xxxix) and extensive notes and introduction]
[PoA_1937]
The poems of Thomas Gray. Edited by Austin Lane Poole. The
Hesperides series. London: H. Milford, 1937.
[P/W_1950]
The Poems of Gray and Collins. Edited by Austin Lane Poole.
Revised by Leonard Whibley. Third edition. Oxford editions of standard
authors series. London: Oxford UP, 1937 [repr. 1950, 1st ed. 1917].
[Includes a bibliography, timeline, and editorial notes]
[ReJ_1973]
The Complete English Poems of Thomas Gray. Edited with an
Introduction and Notes by James Reeves. The Poetry Bookshelf Series.
London: Heinemann; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973. [Includes
introduction, few notes, bibliography (p. 35) and index]
[RoW_1876]
Select poems of Thomas Gray. Ed., with notes, by William J.
Rolfe. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876 [reprinted 1881, revised
edition New York, Cincinnati [etc.]: American book company, [1886 etc.]].
[Includes illustrations and "The life of Thomas Gray. By Robert
Carruthers" (pp. 9-20)]
[ShG_1951]
Thomas Gray: An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The
Eton College Manuscript. With an Introduction by George Sherburn. The
Augustan Reprint Society, Publication Number 31. Los Angeles: Williams
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1951.
[S/H_1966]
The Complete Poems of Thomas Gray: English, Latin and Greek.
Ed. by Herbert W. Starr and J. R. Hendrickson. Oxford [etc.]: Clarendon
Press, 1966 [reprinted with corrections 1972]. [Includes illustration,
editorial notes and annotations]. Reviews: James Kinsley in English
studies (Amsterdam) 52(1) (1971), pp. 180-181, Arthur Johnston in Modern
language review 63(1) (Jan. 1968), p. 199, A. R. Humphreys in Review of
English studies XIX (May 1968), pp. 209-211, R. F. Dossetor in
Church quarterly review 168 (Apr. 1967), p. 252, Roger
Lonsdale in Essays in criticism 17(2) (Apr. 1967), pp. 213-221, P. Dixon in
Notes and Queries XIV (1967), pp. 434-436, in the Times Literary
Supplement (London), 29 Sept. 1966, p. 898.
[StF_1929]
An elegy written in a country church yard by Thomas Gray: the text of
the first quarto with the variants of the mss. & of the early editions
(1751-71). A bibliographical & historical introduction &
appendices on General Wolfe & The "Elegy" & The locality of the
churchyard. By Francis Griffin Stokes. Oxford: At the Clarendon
Press, 1929. [Includes index]
[ToD_1922]
Gray's English Poems, Original and Translated from the Norse and
Welsh. Edited by D. C. Tovey. Cambridge: University Press, 1922 [1st
ed. 1898]. [Includes introduction and extensive notes]. Reviews (of
first edition) in The Academy (Jan. 1901), p. 79, and in
The Cambridge review 22 (1900), p. 142.
[TuK_1997]
Selected poems of Thomas Gray, Charles Churchill and William
Cowper. Ed. with an introduction and notes by Katherine Turner.
Penguin English poets series. London [etc.]: Penguin Books, 1997
[reprinted in Penguin Classics series 1998].
[WhD_1939]
The poems of Thomas Gray. With an introduction by Leonard
Whibley. World's Classics series. London: Oxford UP, H. Milford, [1939].
[Erratum slip inserted]
[W/V_1937]
Gray, Collins, and Their Circle. Ed. by W. T. Williams and G. H.
Vallins. London: 1937.
[WiR_1855]
The Poetical works of Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell, William Collins,
Matthew Green, and Thomas Warton. Edited by Robert Aris Willmott.
Illustrated by Birket Foster and E. Corbould. Second edition. Routledge's
British poets series. London: George Routledge, 1855.
[Includes illustrations and index]