On this day (258 years ago), collected Poems by Mr. Gray (1768) published by James Dodsley in London.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1768d#11
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Happy 309th birthday, Thomas Gray!
Explore Gray's life and works at the #ThomasGrayArchive: https://www.thomasgray.org/
Thomas Gray in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00039.shtml
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No comfort zone, he says, no in-between
Another Churchyard
Christopher Norris
#Poetry #ChristopherNorris #TonyHarrison #Churchyard #ThomasGray #JohnMilton #AntonyEasthope #IambicPentameter #CultureMatters #Poetics
Thrilled to announce the completion of phase II of the #ElegyInTranslation-project: 55 early #19thC #translations of Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country-Churchyard" in Armenian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Welsh:
Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Autumn 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2025
#Elegy #translation #c18th #c19th #poetry #digitalhumanities #ThomasGray
Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
The Thomas Gray Archive is a collaborative digital archive and research project devoted to the life and work of eighteenth-century poet, letter-writer, and scholar Thomas Gray (1716-1771), author of the acclaimed 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751).
Delighted to be at days 3 and 4 of #ASECS2025! Looking forward to papers on #ThomasGray, the 'low-brow' 18th c., #DigitalScholarship we should be using, the global 18th c., and #DigitalTools for the exchange of ideas.
Alexander Huber
Andrew Shields
Alexander Huber