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  • Abrams, M. H.: The mirror and the lamp: romantic theory and the critical tradition. Reprinted edition. New York/London: W. W. Norton, 1958 [1st ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1953]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Abrams, M. H.: Natural supernaturalism: tradition and revolution in romantic literature. New York: W. W. Norton, 1971. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Ambrogi, A.: Thomas Gray e la sua avventura romana. Roma: Libreria dell'800 Editrice, 1945.
  • 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. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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.] [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Bateson, F. W.: English Poetry. A Critical Introduction. Third edition. London: Longmans, 1961 [1st ed. 1950], "Gray's Elegy Reconsidered", 181-193. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Benson, Arthur Christopher: Thomas Gray. Eton: R.I. Drake, 1895. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Bloom, Harold (ed.): Poets of Sensibility and the Sublime. New York: Chelsea House Publ., 1986. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Bloom, Harold (ed.): Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House Publ., 1987. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Bredvold, Louis I.: The Literature of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 1660-1798. New York: Collier Books, 1962, 113-118 ("Collins and Gray"). [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Bronson, Bertrand H.: Facets of the Enlightenment: Studies in English Literature and its Contexts. Berkeley [etc.]: U. of California P., 1968, "The Pre-Romantic or Post-Augustan Mode", 159-172. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Brooke, Stopford A.: Naturalism in English Poetry. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1920, ch. III "Collins and Gray", 42-65. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Brooks, Cleanth: The Well Wrought Urn. Studies in the Structure of Poetry. London: Methuen, 1968 [1st ed. 1947], "Gray's Storied Urn", 85-100. [Also in Herbert W. Starr (ed.): Twentieth century interpretations of Gray's Elegy. A collection of critical essays. Twentieth century interpretations series. Englewood Cliffs N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968, 23-32.] [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Brown, Marshall: Preromanticism. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991, ch. 2 and 3, 24-29, 42-48. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Butler, Marilyn: Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Cultural History. Cambridge: CUP, 2015, chapter 3 "Collins and Gray", 56-87. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Butt, John: The Augustan Age. London: Hutchinson's University Library Series, vol. 43, 1950, "Imitation and Original Composition - Gray", 105-114. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Carper, Thomas R.: The One Writing of Thomas Gray: A Reading of all the Poetry. Thesis (Ph.D.), Boston University, 1973 [also Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1973]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Cecil, David: 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), 38. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Conti Camaiora, Luisa: Gray -- Keats -- Hopkins: Poetry and the Poetic Presence.. Lecce: Milella, [1985], chapter I "Thomas Gray: Two Early Odes and the Elegy", 11-57. Review: Marialuisa Bignami in Modern Language Review (London) 84(2) (1989), 444-445. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Combecher, Hans: Deutung englischer Gedichte. 2. Auflage. Frankfurt/Main: Moritz Diesterweg, 1965, "Thomas Gray: Ode on the Spring", 52-57. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Conti Camaiora, Luisa: Virtuous texts: the idea of virtue in poems by Pope, Gray and Goldsmith. Milan: Vita e pensiero, 2003. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Curr, Matthew: The Consolation of Otherness: The Male Love Elegy in Milton, Gray and Tennyson. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Co., 2002, chapters 2 and 3. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Davie, Donald: The Language of Science and the Language of Literature, 1700-1740. London: Sheed and Ward, 1963. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Deegan, William J.: A Study of the Poetic Craftsmanship of Thomas Gray as Shown by His English Poems. Unpub. univ. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1962. [Abstr. in Dissertation Abstracts (22) 4014A.][Find it in WorldCat]
  • Dobson, Austin: Eighteenth century studies. The Wayfarer's Library. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, [1914?], "Gray's biographer", 277-295. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Dolan, John: Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth. Early Modern Literature in History series. Houndmills; New York: MacMillan; St. Martin's Press, 2000, chapter 5 "'To Darkness and to Me': Mental Event as Poetic Occasion". [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Dongu, Maria Grazia: Thomas Gray Ludens: Frammenti dal Grand Tour. Metodi e prospettive, Studi di Linguistica, Filologia, Letteratura. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2014. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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), 202, Joseph A. Wittreich in Blake 8(4) (1975), 141, James Gray in English Studies in Canada (Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton) 1 (1975), 111-115. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Empson, William: English Pastoral Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton, 1938. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Engell, James: The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1981. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Frayling, Christopher: Horace Walpole's Cat. Illustrated by Richard Bentley, William Blake and Katherine Hale. London: Thames & Hudson, 2009. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Fruchter, Barry George: Studies in the English elegy. Univ. Diss. Microfilm edition. State University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y., 1977. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Fry, Paul H.: The Poet's Calling in the English Ode. New Haven: Yale UP, 1980, "Thomas Gray's Feather'd Cincture", 63-96. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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] [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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] [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Fukuhara, Rintaro: Essays on Thomas Gray. Tokyo: Tokyo UP, 1960. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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 ([121]-123), and index]. Reviews: C. Maria Laudando in Istituto Universitario Orientale (Napoli): Annali / Anglistica 38(1-2) (1995), 219-222, and in Comparatistica 7 (1995), 177-179. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Garrett, John: British Poetry Since the Sixteenth Century. A Student's Guide. London: MacMillan, 1986, "A Tilt towards Romanticism: Thomas Gray", 94-102. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Garrison, James D.: A Dangerous Liberty: Translating Gray's Elegy. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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), 468-470, M. Wechselblatt in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 98(1) (Jan. 1999), 118-121, M. Walsh in The Review of English Studies 50(197) (Feb. 1999), 109, Daniel E. White in Criticism (Detroit) 40(1) (Winter 1998), 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), 132-134, Heidi Thomson in Modern Language Review 93(4) (1998), 1088-1089, R. Wells in Times Literary Supplement (15 May 1998), 12-14, William Levine in Eighteenth-Century Studies (American Soc. for Eighteenth Century Studies, Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC) 36(3) (2003), 429-436, George E. Haggerty, "Gray Revisited". The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 22 (2012), 331-336. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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 (144-151) and index]. Reviews: R. George Thomas in Modern language review 62(2) (Apr. 1967), 318, M. Bell in College English (National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL) XXVII (1966), 435, Paul Ranger (of updated edition) in Notes and Queries: for readers and writers, collectors and librarians (Oxford) 37(3), 349-350. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Grant, Sarabeth Ann: Claiming History: Historiography, Commemoration, and Aesthetic Recompense, 1743-1751. Unpub. univ. diss., Brandeis U., 2016. [Abstr. in Dissertation Abstracts International (Ann Arbor, MI) DA3723507. Contains a chapter on Gray's Elegy.]
  • Grierson, H. J. C.: The Background of English Literature and Other Collected Essays and Addresses. London: Chatto, 1925, 200-255 ("Blake and Gray"). [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Haan, Estelle: Thomas Gray's Latin poetry: some classical, neo-Latin and vernacular contexts. Bruxelles: Latomus revue d'études latines, 2000. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Hagstrum, Jean H.: The Sister Arts. The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray. Chicago: U. of Chicago P., 1958, "Thomas Gray", 287-314. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Hansen, Klaus P. (ed.): Empfindsamkeiten. Passauer Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium, 2 (1990). Passau: Rothe, 1990. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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. . [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Hilles, Frederick W. (ed.): The Age of Johnson: essays presented to Chauncey Brewster Tinker. New Haven: Yale UP, 1949. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Hilles, Frederick W. and Harold Bloom (eds.): From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle. New York: Oxford UP, 1965. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Hough, Graham: The Romantic Poets. London: Hutchinson, 1953, ch. I "Gray", 7-24. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Huehn, Peter: Geschichte der englischen Lyrik, 2 vols. Tübingen/Basel: Francke Verlag, 1995, vol. 1, "Zwischen Klassik und Romantik: Thomas Gray", 233-250. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Hunt, John Dixon: The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening During the Eighteenth Century. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1976, ch. 4. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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), 703-704, Duncan Wu in Romanticism (Edinburgh) 2(1) (1996), 123-125, Suvir Kaul in ANQ 8(2) (1995), 49-51, John Chalker in Critical Survey (Oxford) 7(2) (1995), 230-231, Christopher Decker in Essays in Criticism: a quarterly journal founded by F. W. Bateson (Oxford) 45(3) (1995), 257-263, Robin Dix in Durham University Journal (Dept of English Studies, Univ. of Durham) 56(1) (1995), 169-170, Philip Martin in Byron Journal (Byron Soc., London) 23 (1995), 100, Roger Robinson in Charles Lamb Bulletin: journal of the Charles Lamb Society (London) 87 (1994), 122-123. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Irving, William Henry: The Providence of Wit in the English Letter Writers. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1955, chapter VII, 228-245. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Jackson, Wallace: The Probable and the Marvelous. Blake, Wordsworth, and the Eighteenth-Century Tradition. Athens: U. of Georgia P., 1978, "Mid-Century Poets: Thomas Gray", 64-82. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Jacobson, Jean Alice: How Should Poetry Look? The Printer's Measure and Poet's Line. Unpub. univ. diss., U. of Minnesota, 2008. [Abstr. in Dissertation Abstracts International (Ann Arbor, MI) DA3324409. Contains a chapter on Gray's Elegy.]
  • 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: Sean Shesgreen in Notes and Queries: for readers and writers, collectors and librarians (Oxford) 39(1) (1992), 108-109.[Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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.][Find it in WorldCat]
  • Kaul, Suvir: Thomas Gray and Literary Authority: A Study in Ideology and Poetics. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1992. [Contains bibliography ([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: Richard Terry in British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford) 18(1) (1995), 94, John Lucas in In-between: essays & studies in literary criticism (Dept of English, RLA College, Univ. of New Delhi) 3(2) (1994), 123-127. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Keener, Frederick M.: Implication, readers' resources and Thomas Gray's Pindaric odes. Newark: Delaware UP; Lanham, MD; Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Knighton, Robert T.: A Genius Truly Inclined to Philosophy: Thomas Gray and Platonism. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Colorado, 1972 [also Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1972]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Lessenich, Rolf P.: Aspects of English PreRomanticism. Köln [etc.]: Böhlau, 1989. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Lewis, W. S.: Thomas Gray, 1716-1771. The R. A. Neil lecture, 1971. Cambridge: Pembroke College, 1971. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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: Clair Lamont in Notes and Queries (London) 23 (1976), 374-376. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Lowenstein, Amy: Annals of the Poor: Social Fact and Artistic Response in Gray, Goldsmith, Cowper, Crabbe, Blake, Burns. Thesis (Ph.D.), New York University, 1968 [also Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1969]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • McCarthy, B. Eugene: Thomas Gray: The Progress of a Poet. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; London: Associated UPes, 1997. [Includes bibliographical references (257-270) and index]. Reviews: Choice / Monthly 35(10) (1998), 1708-1709, Heidi Thomson in Yearbook of English Studies (Modern Humanities Research Assn) (Leeds) 30 (2000), 314, William Levine in Eighteenth-Century Studies (American Soc. for Eighteenth Century Studies, Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC) 36(3) (2003), 429-436. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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] [Find it in WorldCat]
  • McGann, Jerome J.: The Poetics of Sensibility: a revolution in literary style. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996, ch. 3, 24-32. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • McGrath, Brian: The Poetics of Unremembered Acts: Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2013, ch. "Leaving the World to Darkness: Gray". [Find it in WorldCat]
  • McKillop, Alan Dugald: English Literature from Dryden to Burns. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948, "Thomas Gray", 220-225. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Marsh, Kathleen Mary: A study of Thomas Gray based on his letter. Thesis (B.A.) 755, University of Liverpool, [Liverpool], 1946.
  • 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), 262, and in Revue anglo-americaine 13 (1935), 153. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Mell, Donald C.: A Poetics of Augustan Elegy. Amsterdam: Rodopi N. V., 1974, "Allusion and the Elegiac Form in Thomas Gray's Sonnet 'On the Death of Richard West'", 63-76. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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), 277. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Millner, Stuart A.: Thomas Gray's Welsh and Norse Poetry. Thesis (Ph.D.), Brandeis University, 1971 [also Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1979]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Mitchell, Robert: Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2021, chapter 1. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Mooney, Thomas Francis: Pre-Romantic, Romantic, Post-Romantic: Four Elegies. Thesis (Ph.D.), St. John's University, 1976 [also Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1977]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Mulholland, James: Sounding imperial: poetic voice and the politics of empire, 1730-1820. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Mullan, John: Sentiment and Sociability: The language of feeling in the 18th century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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 ([239]-265)]. Reviews: F. Garber in Studies in Romanticism 37(2) (Summer 1998), 281-285, Susan Rosenbaum in Keats Shelley Journal 46 (1997), 210-211, Michael Wiley in The Wordsworth Circle 27(4) (Fall 1996), 191-193, M. O'Neill in Durham University Journal 87(2) (Jul. 1995), 394-395, Kelsey Thornton in Romanticism 5(1) (1999), 115-116. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Norton, C. E.: The Poet Gray as a Naturalist. Boston: 1903. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Novak, M. E. (introd.): Context, Influence, and Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Mem. Lib., Univ. of California, 1990. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Parisot, Eric: The Paths of Glory: authority, agency and aesthetics in mid-eighteenth-century graveyard poetry. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Melbourne, 2008. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Parisot, Eric: Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013, chapters 4 and 5. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Pettersson, Torsten: Literary Interpretation: Current Models and a New Departure. Abo: Abo Akademis Forlag, 1988, chapter II "A test case: Gray's Elegy and four interpretations", 19-46. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Phelps, William Lyon: The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement. A Study in Eighteenth Century Literature. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1899, "The Romantic Movement Expemplified in Gray", 155-170. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Prandi, Julie D.: The Poetry of the Self-Taught: An Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. [Contains a section on Gray.] [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Prescott, Sarah: Eighteenth-Century Writing From Wales: Bards and Britons. CREW series of Critical and Scholarly Studies. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008, chapter 3 "'Gray's Pale Spectre': Evan Evans, Translation and the Rise of Welsh Bardic Nationalism", 57-83. Review: Katie Gramich in Times Literary Supplement (24 October 2008), 31. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Quinn, Vincent: A new approach to the writing of Thomas Gray. Univ. diss., Univ. of Cambridge, 1995. [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.] [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Quinn, Vincent: Pre-Romantic Poetry. Writers and Their Work. Tavistock: Northcote House, 2012. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Raymond, Mark: Marked by Melancholy: The Character of the Pensive Text in Gray and Keats. Univ. Diss., New York University, 2005. [Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 66(4) (Oct. 2005), 1364.] [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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. New York: Columbia UP, 1924]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Righi, Giorgia Maria: "Their lot forbad". Thomas Gray's Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. Unpub. univ. diss., Universita' degli Studi di Padova, 2008.
  • 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). [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Robson, Catherine: Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2012, case study: Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Rothstein, Eric: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780, The Routledge History of English Poetry, vol 3. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, 135-160. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Rzepka, Charles J.: The Self as Mind: Vision and Identity in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1986, "The Idea of the Self as Mind", 1-30. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Sacks, Peter M.: The English Elegy. Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1985, chapter V "Jonson, Dryden, and Gray", 133-137. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Santesso, Aaron: A Careful Longing: The Poetics and Problems of Nostalgia. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006, chapters 2 and 3. Reviews: Duane Coltharp in Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 40(1/2) (2007/2008), 152-4, Steven Stryer in Essays in Criticism 58(3) (2008), 273-80. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Schlüter, Kurt: Die englische Ode. Studien zu ihrer Entstehung unter dem Einfluß der antiken Hyme. Bonn: H. Bouvier, 1964, "Thomas Gray: Oden", 145-162. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Scodel, Joshua: The English poetic epitaph: commemoration and conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth. Ithaca ; London: Cornell University Press, 1991, chapters 10 and 11. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Seccombe, Thomas: The Age of Johnson (1748-1798). London: George Bell & Sons, 1900, "Thomas Gray", 248-255. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Shaw, W. David: Elegy and Paradox. Testing the Conventions. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1994, "Berkeley and Gray: Is Death Conceivable?". [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Shuster, George N.: The English Ode from Milton to Keats. New York: Columbia UP, 1940, "Collins, Gray and the Return of the Imagination", 186-213. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Siebert, D. T.: Mortality's Muse: The Fine Art of Dying. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2013, chapter 6. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Sinclair, F. D.: The chronology of Gray's Elegy: an essay on the origins of the poem. Mededelings van die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika. Navorsing deur Dosente en Studente; C46. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1963. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Sitter, John: Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1982. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Smith, Eric: By Mourning Tongues. Studies in the English Elegy. Ipswich/Totowa: Boydell Press and Rowan and Littlefield, 1977, "Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", 40-54. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Snyder, Edward D.: The Celtic Revival in English Literature 1760-1800. Gloucester/Mass.: P. Smith, 1965 [1st ed. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1923], chapter III "Thomas Gray". [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Spacks, Patricia Meyer: The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-Century Poets [James Thomson, William Collins, Thomas Gray, Christopher Smart, William Cowper]. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1967, "Thomas Gray: Action and Image", 90-118.[Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Springall, Stephen: Thomas Gray, Stoke Poges, and "Elegy written in a country church yard": an enquiry. [S.l.]: [s.n.], [s.a.]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Starr, Herbert W.: Gray as a literary critic. Gettysburg: Times and News Publ., 1941 [reprinted Folcroft: Folcroft Library Editions, 1974]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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.] [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Swearingen, James E.: The Critical Reputation of Gray's Poems: 1742-1884.. Univ. Diss. Microform edition. Minneapolis, Minn.: U. of Minnesota, 1970. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Tayler, Irene: Visionary Forms Dramatic: William Blake's Illustrations to the Poetry of Thomas Gray. Thesis (Ph.D.), Stanford University, 1968 [also 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]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Thompson, Ian H.: The English Lakes: A History. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2010, chapter 2 "Pathfinders: From Thomas Gray to William Gilpin", 31-43. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Tillotson, Geoffrey: Essays in Criticism and Research. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1942, 117-123 ("On Gray's Letters"), 124-126 ("Gray the Scholar-Poet"). [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Tillotson, Geoffrey: 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'"), 204-215, 216-223. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Vaughan, Frank A.: Blake's illustrations to the poetry of Thomas Gray: a movement toward eternity. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of California, Riverside, 1980 [also Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1982]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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 (126-133), and index]. Reviews: C. Heppner in Blake. An Illustrated Quarterly 31(1) (Summer 1997), 24-29, Bruce Tice in Antiquarian Book Monthly 23(10) (1996), 26. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Vivante, Leone: English Poetry and its Contribution to the Knowledge of a Creative Principle. London: Faber & Faber, 1950, "III. Thomas Gray", 76-82. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Wagman, Stephen Robert: The Living Lyre: A Study of the Poetry of Thomas Gray. Thesis (Ph.D.), The Johns Hopkins University, 1973 [also Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1973; abstr. in Dissertation Abstracts International (Ann Arbor, MI) (34) 3361A-2A.]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Warren, Thomas H.: Essays of Poets and Poetry, Ancient and Modern. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1970, "Gray and Dante", 217-240. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Weinbrot, Howard D.: Britannia's Issue. The Rise of British Literature from Dryden to Ossian. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993, "Gray's British context", 384-389, and "'The Progress of Poesy' and 'The Bard': transplanting the seats of empire and of praise", 389-401. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Weinfield, Henry: The Poet Without a Name: Gray's "Elegy" and the Problem of History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991. Reviews: 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), 439-443, Joshua Scodel in Modern Philology: a journal devoted to research in medieval and modern literature (Chicago) 91(1) (1993), 98-102. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • 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, 1987. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Wiesenthal, Alan Joel: The Latin Poetry of the English Augustans. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Virginia, 1979 [also Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1980]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Williams, Anne: Prophetic Strain. The Greater Lyric in the Eighteenth Century. Chicago and London: U. of Chicago P., 1984, "Elegy into Lyric: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", 93-110. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Wolfe, William R.: Thomas Gray: The Poet as Letter-Writer. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Virginia, 1973 [also Univ. Diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1973]. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Woodman, Thomas (ed.): Early Romantics: Perspectives in British Poetry from Pope to Wordsworth. Houndmills: MacMillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. [Find it in WorldCat]
  • Zionkowski, Linda: Men's Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784. New York and Houndmills, Eng.: Palgrave, 2001, chapter 4 '"I shall be but a shrimp of an author": Gray, the Marketplace, and the Masculine Poet', 129-170.[Find it in WorldCat]