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  1. 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:
    thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/pr

    #c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #Odes #OTD

  2. 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

  3. Today marks the 255th anniversary of the death of Thomas Gray (1716-1771)—poet, letter-writer, scholar, polymath.

    Featured in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
    thomasgray.org/

    #c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #OTD

  4. 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:
    thomasgray.org/resources/finda

    #c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #Elegy #OTD

  5. 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:
    thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/pr

    #c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #EtonOde #OTD

  6. 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:
    thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/pr

    #c18th #poetry #DH #18thCentury #ThomasGray #Designs #OnThisDay #OTD

  7. 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:

    thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/pr

    #c18th #poetry #19thC #DigitalHumanities

  8. 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:

    thomasgray.org/texts/poems/ele

    #ThomasGrayArchive #c18th #digitalhumanities #ThomasGray

  9. We have added three pre-1800 editions of Thomas Gray's poems to the #ThomasGrayArchive:

    thomasgray.org/about/history.s

    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]

    #c18th #poetry #18thCentury

  10. 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

  11. We have included Gray's sketch on the Bay of Gaeta in the #ThomasGrayArchive Latin poems:

    thomasgray.org/texts/poems/lt2

    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

  12. 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):

    thomasgray.org/about/projects.

    #ThomasGrayArchive #c18th

  13. 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)

    thomasgray.org/about/projects.

    #poetry #c18th #DH