Selected Poems

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Carcanet, 1981 - 86 pages
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Contents

Introduction
7
Select Bibliography
19
The Progress of Poesy
26
Copyright

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About the author (1981)

Author of An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1747), Thomas Gray was born in London in 1716. He was educated at Eton, the inspiration for his An Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1747), and Cambridge. Except for a tour of the Continent, taken in part with friend Horace Walpole, he spent most of his life in Cambridge, where he became professor of history and modern languages in 1768. He died in 1768 and is buried at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, the home of his mother and the inspiration for his famous elegy.

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TitleSelected Poems
Fyfield books
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
AuthorThomas Gray
EditorJohn Heath-Stubbs
Compiled byJohn Heath-Stubbs
Edition2
PublisherCarcanet, 1981
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized7 Mar 2008
ISBN0856353175, 9780856353178
Length86 pages
  
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