Thomas Gray

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Standard Name: Gray, Thomas
Used Form: Mr. D. Gray

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Mary Whateley Darwall
John Wesley noted that he thought some of the elegies of MWDquite equal to Mr. Gray 's.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press.
93
Textual Features Frances Cornford
In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also...
Textual Production Lady Eleanor Butler
LEB kept the first of her journals to survive, prefaced with lines adapted from Thomas Gray 's Elegy in a Country Churchyard about the short and simple annals of the poor.
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton. Editor Bell, Eva Mary, Macmillan.
54
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph.
68
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages.
45, 371
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Browne
FB began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse.
Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon.
xvi-xvii
She continued to write throughout her childhood...
Textual Features Elizabeth Bentley
The poems appear in chronological order, written over the years since 1785, with a bumper year in 1789. EB writes in various modes, using on the whole conventional and old-fashioned style and sentiment in each...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Letitia Barbauld
It is not true that Corsica was unique as an overtly political poem by a woman (precedents reach from the seventeenth century to Verses on the Present State of Ireland by Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan
Friends, Associates Cecil Frances Alexander
The writers whom CFA most admired during her childhood were Scott , Gray , and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth and Byron .
Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix.
xxiii
Around 1833, Cecil Frances Humphreys came into contact with a significant...

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