Select Poems of Thomas GrayGood Press, 2019 M11 21 - 3844 pages This collection features the works of Thomas Gray, including his most famous poem, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'. Despite being widely popular, Gray was a self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime. This volume showcases the timeless beauty and depth of Gray's poetry, which remains relevant and engaging for readers today. Here's an excerpt from his celebrated poem, 'Elegy': "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day / The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea / The plowman homeward plods his weary way / And leaves the world to darkness and to me." |
Contents
STOKEPOGIS | |
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS | |
ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE | |
THE BARD | |
NOTES | |
Old Cookery | |
APPENDIX TO NOTES | |
Other editions - View all
SELECT POEMS OF THOMAS GRAY Thomas 1716-1771 Gray,W. J. (William James) 1827-1910 Rolfe No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
Æolian Æschylus APOLLO CITHAROEDUS appeared Bard beautiful beneath BERKELEY CASTLE breath buxom called Cambridge churchway Comus Country Churchyard Cowley death Dodsley Dodsley's Dryden edition Edward Elegy ELEGY WRITTEN English epitaph Eton College eyes fate favourite feeling fire flowers glory Grand Magazine Gray quotes Gray wrote Gray's Greek Hales heart holy Horace king living London Magazine Lycidas lyre Magazine of Magazines Mason Milton Mitford quotes morn mother Muse night North American Review notes o'er Ovid Pembroke Petrarch Pindaric Pindaric odes poem poet poetic poetry Pope printed Progress of Poesy PROSPECT OF ETON published purple says scorn shade Shakes smile Snowdon solemn song soul Spenser spring stanza Stoke Park Stoke-Pogis Table of Contents Taliessin tear thee THOMAS GRAY Thomson thou thought thro tomb trembling tyrant verse Victor Hirtzler Virgil Wakefield quotes wind Windsor wing Wrightson writer youth