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The Primary Texts section is intended as an online repository for all primary sources relevant to the study of the life and works of Thomas Gray. It provides electronic editions of Gray's poetry, including an extensive collaborative commentary. It also contains selected prose works as well as a browsable calendar to all known correspondence to and from Gray. In addition a concordance to the complete poetry is available for special research interests. All poems, a particular collection of poems, the commentary, and other e-texts may also be searched with a simple search tool for quick access to the texts from search results. The section also provides access to digitized materials, such as scanned images of important 18th-century editions and other media, in the digital library and a finding aid to Gray manuscripts. The principal goal of the Primary 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 Primary Texts section is subdivided into the following parts, each of which provides different ways of navigating, exploring, and using Gray's texts:

Poems: partly annotated electronic edition of Gray's poems
Prose Works: selected essays and criticisms on various topics
Letters: browsable calendar to Gray's correspondence
Concordance: concordance to the complete poems
Digital Library: digitized versions of Gray's works
Finding Aid: integrated guide to Gray manuscripts