Texts

The Texts section holds primary sources relevant to the study of the life and works of Thomas Gray. It provides electronic editions of Gray's complete poetry, including extensive collaborative commentary. It also contains selected prose works as well as a browsable calendar to the known correspondence of Gray. This section also provides access to digital images of important 18th-century editions, in the digital library. The principal goal of the Texts section is to offer free access to a growing number of significant electronic primary sources for use by students, scholars, and teachers, and to stimulate discussion by providing an opportunity to add notes and queries to any part of any of the texts available in the Archive.

The Texts section comprises the following categories:

• Poems: annotated electronic editions of Gray's complete poems. Popular poems include:
  • "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (also on ECPA; see also the Gray's "Elegy" in translation-project page)
  • "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" (also on ECPA)
  • "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" (also on ECPA)
  • "The Bard. A Pindaric Ode" (also on ECPA)
  • "The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode" (also on ECPA)
  • "The Descent of Odin. An Ode" (also on ECPA)
  • "The Fatal Sisters. An Ode" (also on ECPA)
  • "Ode on the Spring" (also on ECPA)
  • "Ode to Adversity" (also on ECPA)
• Prose Works: a selection of Gray's essays and criticisms on various topics
• Letters: Gray's complete correspondence
• Digital Library: digitized facsimile editions of Gray's works, including translations, imitations, parodies, and complimentary verses:
  • Key editions
  • Poems
    • Editions of Gray's poems
    • Translations of Gray's poems (see also the Gray's "Elegy" in translation-project page)
      • English
      • French
      • Greek
      • Italian
      • Latin
    • Imitations/Parodies/Complimentary verses
  • Prose works
  • Letters
  • Audio-visual media