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Poetry

Thomas Graywas an English poet best known for his “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” Despite producing a relatively small body of work, Gray has had a lasting impact on English literature. This collection contains the eleven poems published by Gray in his lifetime, and over twenty more that have been published since his death. As a Cambridge professor, Gray drew from classical structures and themes for inspiration. His annotations to...

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Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College

Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the wat’ry glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry’s holy Shade;1 And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor’s heights the expanse belo...

Poetry

CHAPTERS

Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat - Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

Ode On The Spring

Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

A Long Story

Hymn To Adversity

The Bard - A Pindaric Ode

The Progress of Poesy - A Pindaric Ode

The Descent of Odin - An Ode from the Norse Tongue

The Fatal Sisters - An Ode from the Norse Tongue

Ode for Music - Performed at the Installation of the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1769

Agrippina - A Fragment of a Tragedy

Agrippina Dramatis Personae

Agrippina Preface

Act I - Scene I - Agrippina, Aceronia

Act I - Scene II - Otho, Poppaea

The Alliance of Education and Government - A Fragment

Epitaph On Mrs Jane Clarke

Epitaph On Sir William Williams

Hymn to Ignorance - A Fragment

Lines Written At Burnham

Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude - A Fragment

Gray on Himself - Written in 1761, and Found in One of His Pocketbooks

Sonnet On The Death Of Richard West

Stanzas To Mr Bentley

The Candidate - Or, The Cambridge Courtship

Impromptu - Suggested by a View, in 1766, of the Seat and Ruins of a Deceased Nobleman, at Kingsgate, Kent

Tophet

Song

Epitaph On Mrs Mason

Amatory Lines

Comic Lines

Verses from Shakespeare - To Mrs. Anne, Regular Servant to the Rev. Mr. Precentor of York

Epitaph On A Child

Satire on the Heads of Houses - Or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring

Impromptus

Lines - On Dr. Robert Smith

Lines Spoken By The Ghost Of John Dennis

Endnotes

Poetry

CHAPTERS

Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat - Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

Ode On The Spring

Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

A Long Story

Hymn To Adversity

The Bard - A Pindaric Ode

The Progress of Poesy - A Pindaric Ode

The Descent of Odin - An Ode from the Norse Tongue

The Fatal Sisters - An Ode from the Norse Tongue

Ode for Music - Performed at the Installation of the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1769

Agrippina - A Fragment of a Tragedy

Agrippina Dramatis Personae

Agrippina Preface

Act I - Scene I - Agrippina, Aceronia

Act I - Scene II - Otho, Poppaea

The Alliance of Education and Government - A Fragment

Epitaph On Mrs Jane Clarke

Epitaph On Sir William Williams

Hymn to Ignorance - A Fragment

Lines Written At Burnham

Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude - A Fragment

Gray on Himself - Written in 1761, and Found in One of His Pocketbooks

Sonnet On The Death Of Richard West

Stanzas To Mr Bentley

The Candidate - Or, The Cambridge Courtship

Impromptu - Suggested by a View, in 1766, of the Seat and Ruins of a Deceased Nobleman, at Kingsgate, Kent

Tophet

Song

Epitaph On Mrs Mason

Amatory Lines

Comic Lines

Verses from Shakespeare - To Mrs. Anne, Regular Servant to the Rev. Mr. Precentor of York

Epitaph On A Child

Satire on the Heads of Houses - Or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring

Impromptus

Lines - On Dr. Robert Smith