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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:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1768a

#c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #Poems #OTD

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

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

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

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:

https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1843/1/iii

#c18th #poetry #19thC #DigitalHumanities

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

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:

https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/poems/elegy/#translations

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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

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

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.

#18thC #Romanticism #ThomasGrayArchive #poetry

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/
#ThomasGrayArchive

https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00039.shtml
#EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive

#c18th #poetry #dh #18thC #onthisday #otd #digitalhumanities

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.

#Latin #c18th

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.

#Latin #c18th

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.

#Latin #c18th

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.

#Latin #c18th

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.

#Latin #c18th

Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:

https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2025

#Gaeta #c18th #Latin #poetry #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC

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):

https://www.thomasgray.org/about/projects.shtml#202310

#ThomasGrayArchive #c18th

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

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

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

We have added three pre-1800 editions of Gray's poems to the #ThomasGrayArchive's digital library:

https://thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2023

#digitallibrary #editions #c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC

Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Autumn 2023 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:

https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2023

#Elegy #translation #editions #c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC

Excited to present "An Exploratory Tour of Thomas Gray's English poems"—our first experiment with the @VoyantTools-powered #Spyral notebook environment that combines writing, code, and data:

https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/poems/notebooks/ep.shtml

#ThomasGrayArchive #c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC

We have added three pre-1780 editions of Gray's poems to the #ThomasGrayArchive's digital library:

https://thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2023

#digitallibrary #editions #c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC

Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2023 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:

https://www.thomasgray.org/about/history.shtml#2023

@VoyantTools #Spyral #notebooks #editions #c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC

Happy 306th birthday, Thomas Gray!

#ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/

#EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00039.shtml

#c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #otd #btd #onthisday

A visualization of Thomas Gray's correspondence — highlighting major topics of conversation — is now available as an interactive network graph:

https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/letters/network.shtml

We'd appreciate any feedback!

#ThomasGray #18thCentury #letters #c18th #digitalhumanities #ThomasGrayArchive