Authority Cited: Gray [Thomas]
Author name and dates: Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poetry sparse but respected; classical scholar; valued the picturesque; Elegy quoted in 4th ed.; SJ valued Elegy in Lives
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: three T. Gray cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists 326 2. Gray's poems by Mason, 1775. . . . The edition used by SJ for the 1773 Dict. is unknown.]
Poems by Mr. Gray, 1770, London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall
Author name and dates: Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poetry sparse but respected; classical scholar; valued the picturesque; Elegy quoted in 4th ed.; SJ valued Elegy in Lives
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: three T. Gray cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists 326 2. Gray's poems by Mason, 1775. . . . The edition used by SJ for the 1773 Dict. is unknown.]
Poems by Mr. Gray, 1770, London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; bosom (p.120); lea (p.109, cited as Grey); rest (p.119)