Thomas Gray

by Mack, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9780460878050
• ISBN10: 0460878050
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Everyman

Summary

Thomas Gray(1716-71) author of 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', his best known work. This is a book of his poetry.

Table of Contents

Note on the Author and Editor	v
Chronology of Thomas Gray's Life and Times	vi
Introduction	xxiv
Poems
Ode on the Spring	3	(2)
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College	5	(3)
Sonnet on the Death of Mr Richard West	8	(1)
Ode to Adversity	9	(2)
Hymn to Ignorance	11	(2)
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes	13	(2)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	15	(5)
A Long Story	20	(5)
The Progress of Poesy	25	(4)
The Bard	29	(5)
Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude	34	(2)
Epitaph on Mrs Clerke	36	(1)
Epitaph on a Child	37	(1)
The Fatal Sisters	38	(3)
The Descent of Odin	41	(4)
The Triumphs of Owen	45	(2)
Sketch of his Own Character	47	(1)
Song I (`Midst beauty and pleasure's gay triumphs to languish')	48	(1)
Song II (`Thyrsis, when we parted, swore')	49	(1)
The Candidate	50	(2)
William Shakespeare to Mrs Anne, Regular Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of York	52	(1)
On Lord Holland's Seat near Margate, Kent	53	(1)
Ode for Music	54	(3)
Notes	57