The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume X. The Age of Johnson.
Bibliography
- For an account of the extant manuscripts of Gray, see notes at end of Gray’s Poems, ed. Bradshaw, J. (Aldine edn.), 1891.
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DITIONS PRINTED IN GRAY’S LIFETIME - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Dodsley. 1747. (Published anonymously.)
- Dodsley’s collection (vol.
II, 1748) contains the Eton Ode (anon.), the Ode on the Spring, and the Ode on the death of a favourite Cat, the last two for the first time.- An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard. Dodsley. 1751. 2nd edn. 1751; 4th edn. 1751. (With an Advertisement by Horace Walpole.)
- Printed also in The Magazine of Magazines, Feb. 28, 1751; in The London Magazine, Feb. 28; in The Scots Magazine, Mar. 31; in The Grand Magazine of Magazines, April 30. 8th edn. 1753; 9th edn. 1754. Facsimile of the original manuscript of the Elegy in Pembroke College, Cambridge. 1897.
- Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. 1753, 1765. (The Ode on the Spring; On the death of a favourite cat; On a Distant Prospect of Eton; Hymn to Adversity; Long Story; Elegy.)
- Odes by Mr. Gray. Strawberry Hill, 1757.
- Poems by Mr. Gray. 1768. Glasgow, 1768. New edn. 1770.
- Ode performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769, at the Installation of His Grace Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University. Cambridge, 1769.
- Dodsley’s collection (vol.
- B. L
ATER EDITIONS, INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE - Gray’s Poems are contained in the principal collections of British Poets (Bell, Johnson, Anderson, Chalmers, etc.).
- The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings. By Mason, W. York, 1775. Another edn. 4 vols. 1778.
- Poems. 1776, 1778, 1786, 1799 (ed. Jones, S.).
- Matthisson, F. von. Letters written from … the Continent.… With an Appendix in which are included three Letters of Gray’s. 1799.
- Gray’s Works. Ed. Mason, W., with extracts from Gray’s MSS. by Mathias, T. J. 2 vols. 1814.
- Mason, W. Poems. 1764. 5th edn. York, 1779. New edn. 3 vols. York, 1796–7.
- Poems, with Life, Notes, and an Essay on his Poetry by Mitford, J. 1814.
- Works, with a Life of the Author and an Essay on his Poetry, by Mitford, J. 2 vols. 1816.
- Poetical Works, with Life etc. by Mitford, J. (Aldine Poets.) 1830.
- Works, etc. Ed. Mitford, J. 4 vols. 1836. Vol.
V, containing Gray’s correspondence with Nicholls, etc. 1843.- Poetical Works. Ed. Moultrie, J. Eton, 1845.
- —— with a new life by Mitford, J. 1847.
- —— with the new life, and a Lecture on the writings of Gray by the Earl of Carlisle. 4th edn. Eton, 1852. 5th edn. 1854. Other edns. 1863, 1866.
- The Correspondence of Gray and Mason, etc. Ed. Mitford, J. 1853. 2nd edn. 1855.
- Poems of Gray, Parnell, Collins, Green, and Warton. 1853. Ed. Willmott, R. A. [The account of Gray is brief, but excellent.]
- Works. Ed. Gosse, E. 4 vols. 1884.
- Gray and his friends. Letters and relics. Ed. Tovey, D. C. Cambridge, 1890.
- Poetical Works. New Aldine Edition, with Life, Notes, and Bibliography by Bradshaw, J. 1891.
- English Poems of Gray. Ed. Tovey, D. C. Cambridge, 1898.
- Gray’s Letters. Ed. Tovey, D. C. 3 vols. 1900–12.
- [Gives evidence of Sir Walter Scott’s interest in Norse literature.]
- For translations and parodies see Bradshaw’s bibliography, supra.
- The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings. By Mason, W. York, 1775. Another edn. 4 vols. 1778.
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IOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM - See, also, sec. B.
- See, also, sec. B.
- Arnold, M. Introduction to the selection from Gray’s Poems, printed in T. H. Ward’s English Poets, vol.
III. 1880.- Gosse, E. Gray. (English Men of Letters.) 1882. New edn. 1889.
- Johnson, Samuel. Gray. Lives of the Poets. Ed. Hill, G. B. Vol.
III. Oxford, 1905. [For criticisms of the above see Bradshaw, u. s. p. 317.]- Kittredge, G. L. Gray’s Knowledge of Old Norse. In Appendix to Introduction to Phelps’s Selections from the Poetry and Prose of T. Gray. Boston, 1894.
- Mackenzie, Henry. Introduction to Gray’s Fatal Sisters (1768). In Works. vol.
VIII. Edinburgh, 1808.- Mathias, T. J. Observations on the writings and on the character of Mr. Gray, 1815.
- Stephen, Sir L. Thomas Gray. D. of N. B., vol.
XXIII. 1890. - Gosse, E. Gray. (English Men of Letters.) 1882. New edn. 1889.