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 to report the addition of the 1843 edition of _Elegia di Tommaso Gray_ to the #ThomasGrayArchive digital library. The volume contains 12 Italian, 5 Latin, 1 Hebrew, 6 French, and 4 German #Elegy translations:
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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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
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We have added three pre-1800 editions of Thomas Gray's poems to the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2025
The poems of Mr. Gray. London: Kearsley, 1786. [ESTC T42615]
Poems by Mr. Gray. [London: 1787?] [ESTC T490245]
Poems by Mr. Gray. Parma: Bodoni, 1793. [ESTC N21109]
Excellent paper by Paris Weber to conclude a fabulous #NASSR2025 on Thomas Gray's representation of nature as integral to the perception of time's flow and human memory in his #EtonOde and #Elegy, drawing a connection from Burnet to Hardy.
Alexander Huber
Alexander Huber