Digital Library

• Published works
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Published works

• Poems
  • Editions of Gray's poems
    • 1751: An Elegy wrote in a Country Church Yard. London: R. Dodsley, 1751.
          [11p., page images; see Northup 492.]
    • 1753: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London: R. Dodsley, 1753.
          [47p., page images; see Northup 178.]
    • 1757: Odes by Mr. Gray. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757.
          [19p., page images; see Northup 180.]
    • 1762: An ELEGY written in a Country Church Yard. With an HYMN to Adversity. By Mr. Gray. London: J. James, 1762.
          [8p., page images; see Northup 183.]
    • 1765: A Collection of Poems in six volumes. By several hands. London: J. Dodsley, 1765 [1st ed. 1758].
          [47p., page images; see Northup 186.]
      • Vol. II. [1st ed. 1748] (Gray's poems)
      • Vol. IV. [1st ed. 1755] (Gray's poems)
      • Vol. VI. [1st ed. 1758] (Gray's poems)
    • 1768: Poems by Mr. Gray. A new edition. London: J. Dodsley, 1768 [1st ed. 1768].
          [126p., page images; see Northup 53.]
    • 1768: Poems by Mr. Gray. Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1768.
          [68p., page images; see Northup 56.]
    • 1769: Ode performed in the Senate-house at Cambridge... Cambridge: J. Archdeacon, 1769.
          [8p., page images; see Northup 1401.]
    • 1771: Poems by Mr. Gray. A new edition. London: B. Long and T. Pridden, 1771.
          [106p., page images/PDF; not in Northup or Starr.]
    • 1774?: The Candidate: By Mr. Gray. [Strawberry Hill: Strawberry Hill Press, 1774.]
          [2p., page images.]
    • 1775: The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York[; London]: J. Todd; J. Dodsley, 1775.
          [112p., page images; see Northup 13.]
    • 1775: Poems by Mr. Gray. A new edition. Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1775.
          [156p., page images/PDF; not in Northup or Starr.]
    • 1775: Poems by Mr. Gray. Dublin: W. Sleater, 1775 [1st ed. 1768].
          [248p., page images/PDF; see Northup 62.]
    • 1776: Poems by Mr. Gray. A new edition. London: J. Murray, 1776.
          [150p., page images/PDF; see Northup 63. See also John Murray's Letter to W. Mason, A.M. (1777)]
    • 1782: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray [and Richard West]. Edinburg: Apollo Press, 1782.
          [110p., page images/PDF; see Northup 69a.]
    • 1787?: The Grave, by Robert Blair; to which is added Gray's Elegy. London: Scatcherd & Whitaker, [1787].
          [54p., page images; see Northup 533.]
    • 1798: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. London: Ann Lemoine, 1798.
          [70p., page images/PDF; not in Northup, Starr, or ESTC.]
    • 1799: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. London: C. Cooke, [1799].
          [79p., page images/PDF; see Northup 92?]
    • 1799: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, LL.B. London: [C. Whittingham] For J. Scatcherd, 1799.
          [247p., page images/PDF; see Northup 84]
    • 1800: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, LL.B. Second edition. London: C. Whittingham, 1800 [1st ed. 1799].
          [287p., page images/PDF; see Northup 85]
    • 1800: The Poems of Gray. A new edition. Adorned with plates. London: F. J. Du Roveray, 1800.
          [200p., page images/PDF; see Northup 86]
    • 1805: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. London: W. Suttaby & C. Corral, 1805.
          [101p., page images/PDF; see Northup 92?]
    • 1814: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. London: J. Walker et al., 1814.
          [65p., page images/PDF; not in Northup or Starr.]
    • 1816: The Works of Thomas Gray. Vol. I. containing The Poems, with critical notes; A Life of the Author; and an Essay on his Poetry; By the Rev. John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816.
          [433p., page images/PDF; see Northup 19]
    • 1826: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. London: John Sharpe, 1826.
          [172p., page images/PDF; see Northup 110]
    • 1835-43: The Works of Thomas Gray. Volume I. Ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London: William Pickering, 1836.
          [363p., page images/PDF; see Northup 30]
    • 1891: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: English and Latin. Edited with an Introduction, Life, Notes, and a Bibliography by John Bradshaw. London: George Bell & Sons, 1891.
          [388p., e-text; see Northup 170.]
  • Translations of Gray's poems
    • 1772: Elegia Inglese, del signor Tommaso Gray, sopra un cimitero di campagna, trasportata in verso italiano dall' [Abate Melchior Cesarotti]. Padua: Giuseppe Comino, 1772.
          [23p., page images; see Northup 796.]
    • 1775: The Latin Odes of Mr. Gray, in English verse, with An Ode on the Death of a favorite Spaniel [by E. B. G.]. London: J. Ridley, 1775.
          [15p., page images; see Northup 338.]
    • 1775: Carmen Elegiacum. In coemeterio rustico compositum. [By Robert Lloyd, 1762.] In: Poems by Mr. Gray. Dublin: W. Sleater, 1775, pp. 115-125.
          [See Northup 62.]
    • 1775: Elegia, scripta in Coemeterio Rustico. Latine reddita. [By Christopher Anstey and William Hayward Roberts, 1762.] In: Poems by Mr. Gray. Dublin: W. Sleater, 1775, pp. 126-151.
          [See Northup 62.]
    • 1775: Elegia scritta in Cimiterio di Campagna. [By Abbate Crocchi of Sienna.] In: Poems by Mr. Gray. Dublin: W. Sleater, 1775, pp. 153-166.
          [See Northup 62.]
    • 1775: Elegia inglese del signor Tommaso Gray, sopra un cimitero di campagna trasportata in versi latini, e volgari. [By G. Costa and G. Gennari, respectively, 1772.] In: Poems by Mr. Gray. Dublin: W. Sleater, 1775, pp. 189-211.
          [See Northup 62.]
    • 1776: Elegia di Tommaso Gray, poeta inglese, per esso scritta in un cimitero campestre, tradotta in versi italiani [da Giuseppe Torelli]. Verona: Gli Eredi di Agostino Carattoni, 1776.
          [22p., page images; see Northup 799.]
    • 1788: Élégie composée dans un cimetière de campagne, traduite en françois, vers pour vers, de l'anglois de Gray, par P. G. D. B. ... On y a joint une traduction de la même piéce, en vers latins, par un membre de l'Université de Cambridge. Croydon: imprimié aux dépens du traducteur françois et se vend chez T. Hookham; P. Elmsly; C. Dilly; J. de Boffe; J. Hall; R. Hawes, Croydon; et chez le traducteur ou meme lieu, 1788.
          [25p., page images; see Northup 742.]
    • 1795: Elegia Grayiana Græce, accedit etiam Epitaphium in Ecclesia Episcopali Bristoliensi et Græce redditum, interprete Edvardo Tew, A. M. Coll. Etonens. Londini: e typographeo J. Nichols; veneunt apud R. Faulder. 1795.
          [34p., page images; see Northup 551.]
  • Imitations/Parodies of Gray's poems
    • 1775: Ode on Ranelagh. Addressed to the Ladies. Being a Parody on Mr. Gray's celebrated Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College. [By Henry James Pye, 1763.] In: Poems by Mr. Gray. Dublin: W. Sleater, 1775, pp. 177-186.
          [See Northup 62.]
    • 1775: The Bard: a Burlesque Ode. Written by R. Lloyd and G. Colman. [1760.] In: Poems by Mr. Gray. Dublin: W. Sleater, 1775, pp. 199-211.
          [See Northup 62.]
    • 1775: An Evening Contemplation in A College. Being A Parody on the Elegy in a Country Church-Yard. [By John Duncombe, 1753.] In: Poems by Mr. Gray. Dublin: W. Sleater, 1775, pp. 187-197.
          [See Northup 62.]
    • 1776: A Parody on Gray's Elegy. By An Oxonian. [An Evening Contemplation in a College. By John Duncombe.] London: J. Wheble, 1776.
          [11p., page images; see Northup 898.]
• Prose Works
  • 1787: A Supplement to the Tour Through Great-Britain, containing a Catalogue of the antiquities, houses, parks, plantations, scenes, and situations, in England and Wales... By The Late Mr. Gray... To which are now added, by another Hand, Several Additions... London: G. Kearsley, 1787.
        [128p., page images; see Northup 465.]
  • 1835-43: The Works of Thomas Gray. Volume IV. "Criticisms on Architecture and Painting during a Tour in Italy". Ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London: William Pickering, 1836.
        [81p., page images/PDF; see Northup 30]
  • 1911: Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Clark Sutherland Northup. Boston and London: D. C. Heath & Co., 1911.
        [436p., e-text; see Northup 336.]
  • 2011: Notes on a Tour through France and Italy undertaken in the Years 1739 to 1741 by Thomas Gray. Transcribed and edited by W.G. Roberts. Penrith: Northern Academic Press, 2011 [1st ed. Carlisle: The Colophon Press, 2003].
        [185p., e-text/PDF]
• Letters
  • 1775: The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason. York[; London]: J. Todd; J. Dodsley, 1775.
        [416p., page images; see Northup 13.]
  • 1816: The Works of Thomas Gray. Vol. II. containing The Letters; with important additions and corrections from His Own Manuscripts. Selected and edited by the Rev. John Mitford. London: J. Mawman, 1816.
        [609p., page images/PDF; see Northup 19]
  • 1835-43: The Works of Thomas Gray. Volumes II-V. Ed. by the Rev. John Mitford. London: William Pickering, 1835-43.
        [1296p., page images/PDF; see Northup 30, 31]
  • 1853: The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason, with notes and illustrations by the Rev. John Mitford. London: Richard Bentley, 1853.
        [530p., page images/PDF; see Northup 1236.]
  • 1890: Gray and his Friends: Letters and Relics, in great part hitherto unpublished, edited by Duncan C. Tovey. Cambridge: University Press, 1890.
        [329p., page images/PDF; see Northup 45.]
  • 1900-1912: The Letters of Thomas Gray, including the correspondence of Gray and Mason, edited by Duncan C. Tovey, editor of "Gray and His Friends," etc. London: George Bell and Sons, 1900-1912.
        [1290p., page images/PDF; see Northup 1226.]
    • Vol. I [1735-1757]
    • Vol. II [1757-1762]
    • Vol. III [1763-1771]
  • 1915: The Correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771), in two volumes, chronologically arranged and edited with introduction, notes, and index by Paget Toynbee. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1915.
        [875p., page images/PDF; see Northup 1248.]
    • Vol. I. (1734-1740)
    • Vol. II. (1741-1771)

Audio-visual media

• "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" [e-text]
  • read by [BuM_s.a.] Michael Burrell:
    play audio clip [RealAudio] (run time: 9 min 34 sec)
  • extracts (ll. 1-20, 29-36, 41-48, 57-76, 93-104, 109-116) read by [ReM_1964] Sir Michael Redgrave:
    play audio clip [RealAudio] (run time: 4 min 42 sec)
• "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" [e-text]
  • read by [BuM_s.a.] Michael Burrell:
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• "Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West]" [e-text]
  • read by [BuM_s.a.] Michael Burrell:
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