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Poems

You are searching the TEI/XML–encoded digital edition of the complete poems of Thomas Gray, in English, Latin, and Greek, as available on the Archive's Poems page. This also includes translations of Gray's poems, such as the translations produced as part of the "Gray's Elegy in translation"–project.

Prose Works

You are searching a selection of Gray's prose from the Archive's digital library, partly transcribed and partly OCR'd/HTR'd, as available on the Archive's Prose Works page, primarily intended to highlight Gray's scholarly efforts alongside his poetry and letter writing. Over time we will be adding more prose from manuscripts, notebooks, diaries, and marginalia.

Letters

You are searching the TEI/XML–encoded digital edition of the complete correspondence of Thomas Gray, including letters written to Gray, as available on the Archive's Letters page. There are 651 known letters from and to the poet, of which 592 have survived in autograph MS, as a copy, or in print.

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