Under her own name ECW
published her final novel, Youth on the Prow (whose title is quoted from Thomas Gray
), again in three volumes.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2682 (1879): 375
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
The title poem alludes through its name to Mozart
's Magic Flute. Its protagonist, Catherine, nearly eighteen, is gently mocked for her literary aspirations: Her Poems good, if not surprising, / On Friendship, Death...
Residence
Helen Maria Williams
She was delighted to learn that Thomas Gray
had once lived there.
Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press.
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Occupation
Horace Walpole
The Strawberry Hill Press
was active for decades. Its first publication, Two Odes by Walpole's friend Thomas Gray
, appeared on 8 August.
Education
Anna Swanwick
At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope
, and Cowper
. At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton
's L'Allegro...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Steele
Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton
, Gray
, Edward Young
. She imitates Pope
on solitude, writes first of James Hervey
's...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Scott
William, baptised in 1727, became a clergyman and a friend of the poet Thomas Gray
.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv.
Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson
and Wordsworth
; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray
and Crabbe
, and wrote several poems inspired...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Robinson
It is set in France, and voices anti-Catholic sentiments. The poetry quoted in it (by poets of the Graveyard School like Edward Young
, Thomas Gray
, and Edward Young
, as well as...
Textual Production
Anne Plumptre
AP
translated and published Letters Written from Various Parts of the Continent, between the Years 1785 and 1794 by Frederick Matthisson
, which included three letters by Thomas Gray
.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 27 (1799): 115
Textual Features
Katherine Philips
In On the Welsh Language, KP
praises the early British queen Boadicea
and anticipates something of the tone of Thomas Gray
's The Bard. It is unlikely that she learned Welsh (though her...
Textual Features
Sarah Pearson
The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Murray
Murray then divides her volume into three parts: A Guide to the Lakes . . . and . . . the West Riding of Yorkshire, A Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anne Mozley
John Wordsworth
later singled out AM
's article on Thomas Gray
(published at a time when eighteenth-century poetry in general was very decidedly out of fashion) as being as sympathetic and fresh as anything which...
Timeline
30 May 1747: Thomas Gray published Ode on a Distant Prospect...
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30 May 1747
Thomas Gray
published Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
18 March 1748: Robert Dodsley first offered for sale his...
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18 March 1748
Robert Dodsley
first offered for sale his influential Collection of Poems by Several Hands.
15 February 1751: Thomas Gray published his Elegy Written in...
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15 February 1751
Thomas Gray
published his Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard, to forestall unauthorized publication.
By June 1753: Thomas Gray's Poems were published by Dodsley,...
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By June 1753
Thomas Gray
's Poems were published by Dodsley
, with designs by Richard Bentley
the younger.
8 August 1757: Thomas Gray published his Two Odes (the Pindarics...
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8 August 1757
Thomas Gray
published his Two Odes (the Pindarics The Bard and The Progress of Poesy).
15 January 1759: The British Museum (including what had formerly...
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15 January 1759
The British Museum
(including what had formerly been known as the King's Library
), established six years earlier, was first opened to the public.
22 September 1761: King George III and Queen Charlotte were...
1775: The first, posthumous, printing of Thomas...
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1775
The first, posthumous, printing of Thomas Gray
's sonnet on the death of Richard West
caused a literary sensation; it laid the foundation for Charlotte Smith
's Elegiac Sonnets, 1784, and the revival of the sonnet form.
Texts
Gray, Thomas, and Herbert Willmarth Starr. Correspondence. Editors Toynbee, Paget and Leonard Whibley, Clarendon Press, 1971.
Gray, Thomas, and Herbert Willmarth Starr. Correspondence. Editors Toynbee, Paget and Leonard Whibley, Clarendon Press, 1971.
Gray, Thomas, and William Collins. “Introduction”. Thomas Gray and William Collins: Poetical Works, edited by Roger Lonsdale, Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 9-13.
Gray, Thomas, and William Collins. “Introduction”. Thomas Gray and William Collins: Poetical Works, edited by Roger Lonsdale, Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 9-13.
Gray, Thomas, and William Collins. “Introductions”. Selected Poems of Thomas Gray and William Collins, edited by Arthur Johnson, Edward Arnold, 1967, pp. 9 - 14, 121.
Matthisson, Frederick, and Thomas Gray. Letters Written from Various Parts of the Continent. Translator Plumptre, Anne, T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799.
Gray, Thomas, and William Collins. Thomas Gray and William Collins: Poetical Works. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Oxford University Press, 1977.