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Excited to announce the availability of an interactive map of Thomas Gray's correspondence, which joins the existing correspondence network in the #ThomasGrayArchive's Letters section:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/letters/map.shtml
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On this date 269 years ago, Odes by Mr. Gray (The Progress of Poesy and The Bard) published by Horace Walpole at his new Strawberry Hill press in 1757.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
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On this date 269 years ago, Odes by Mr. Gray (The Progress of Poesy and The Bard) published by Horace Walpole at his new Strawberry Hill press in 1757.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1757
#c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #Odes #OTD -
Today marks the 255th anniversary of the death of Thomas Gray (1716-1771)—poet, letter-writer, scholar, polymath.
Featured in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
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Very pleased to announce the addition of the 592 surviving letters in Thomas Gray’s correspondence to the #ThomasGrayArchive integrated finding aid to Thomas Gray manuscripts:
https://www.thomasgray.org/resources/findaid.shtml
#c18th #correspondence #letters #findingaid #ThomasGray #DigitalHumanities #18thC #EAD
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OTD (276 years ago): Gray completed the Elegy at Stoke Poges and sent it to Horace Walpole who circulated it in MS among his friends and acquaintances.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
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On this day (279 years ago), Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College published anonymously by Robert Dodsley in 1747.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
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This day 258 years ago: collected Poems by Mr. Gray published by Robert and Andrew Foulis in Glasgow.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2026 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive: www.thomasgray.org/about/histor... #c18th #correspondence #map #letters #findingaid #ThomasGray #poetry #DigitalHumanities
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2026 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2026
#c18th #correspondence #map #letters #findingaid #ThomasGray #poetry
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OTD (273 years ago): Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray (1753), the first authorized collected edition of Gray's poetry, published by Robert Dodsley.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1753b#c18th #poetry #DH #18thCentury #ThomasGray #Designs #OnThisDay #OTD
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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#c18th #poetry #DH #18thCentury #ThomasGray #Poems #OnThisDay #OTD
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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:
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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
#c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #otd #btd #onthisday #18thC #ThomasGray #digitalhumanities
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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:
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Autumn 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive: www.thomasgray.org/about/histor... #Elegy #translation #c18th #c19th #poetry #digitalhumanities #ThomasGray
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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
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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.
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Today marks the 254th anniversary of the death of Thomas Gray—poet, letter-writer, scholar, polymath.
Explore Gray's life and works: https://www.thomasgray.org/
#ThomasGrayArchivehttps://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00039.shtml
#EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive#c18th #poetry #dh #18thC #onthisday #otd #digitalhumanities
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We have included Gray's sketch on the Bay of Gaeta in the #ThomasGrayArchive Latin poems:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/poems/lt26
Written on an excursion from Rome to Naples in 1740, while on the Grand Tour, the poem is among Gray's MS notes on the journey, at #JHU Libraries.
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
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Update on the "#Elegy in translation"-project phase II (1806-1850): 55 early #c19 #translations in 12 #languages (Armenian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, and Welsh):
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Happy 308th birthday, Thomas Gray!
Explore Gray's life and works at the #ThomasGrayArchive: https://thomasgray.org
Thomas Gray in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: https://eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00039.shtml
#c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #otd #btd #onthisday #18thC -
Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Autumn 2024 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2024
#Elegy #translations #c18th #poetry #digitalhumanities #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC
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Very pleased to announce the availability of a digital rhyme-index to the complete English poems of Thomas Gray:
https://eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/resources/rhyme-index/?aut=pers00039
#ThomasGrayArchive #c18th #poetry #RhymeIndex #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC -
Today marks the 253rd anniversary of the death of Thomas Gray—poet, letter-writer, scholar, polymath.
Explore Gray's life and works:
https://www.thomasgray.org
#ThomasGrayArchivehttps://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers...
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We have added five examples of Gray's "Elegy" as an addition to Robert Blair's "The Grave" to the #ThomasGrayArchive's digital library:
https://thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2024
#digitallibrary #editions #c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC -
Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2024 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2024
#TheGrave #editions #c18th #poetry #RhymeIndex #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC -
The #ThomasGrayArchive is thrilled to announce the second phase of our "Gray's #Elegy in translation"-project, which will add over 50 #translations, including ones in five new #languages (Armenian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovene)