Thomas Gray: A LifeThis major biography of Thomas Gray (1716-1771), the first in nearly half a century, expands our knowledge of the life of the English poet and our understanding of his personality and influential body of works. Robert L. Mack incorporates recent - and often radically revisionary - scholarship on Gray, drawing on developments in eighteenth-century studies and gender studies as well as on extensive original archival research into the life of the poet and his family. |
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Contents
Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire | 1 |
Grays rooms at Pembroke College | 37 |
Pencil Sketch of Thomas Gray by Francis Mapletoft | 38 |
Silhouette of Thomas Gray by Francis Mapletoft | 39 |
Silhouette of Thomas Gray seated by Mrs Wray | 40 |
Silhouette of William Mason copying the Venus de Medici | 41 |
Thomas Gray by Benjamin Wilson | 42 |
John Montagu 4th Earl of Sandwich by Thomas Beach | 43 |
Frontispiece to Masons edition of Grays Works | 48 |
Stoke Poges Church by Hendrik de Cont | 49 |
Eton 17251734 | 88 |
Cambridge 17341738 | 144 |
The Grand Tour 17391741 2 2 0 | 220 |
London Stoke and the Death | 273 |
Return to Cambridge | 330 |
The Royal Exchange Cornhill | 350 |
Henry Lord Holland by William Hogarth | 44 |
The Senate House Cambridge | 45 |
Charles Victor de Bonstetten as Hamlet | 46 |
Grays outline sketch for a History of English Poetry | 47 |
Grays travel notes on Amiens and Paris from Unpublished | 350 |
Falconet | 350 |
Richard Bentley Tailpiece Eton Ode Designs | 339 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Thomas Gray: A Life |
| Author | Robert L. Mack |
| Edition | unabridged |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0300084994, 9780300084993 |
| Length | 718 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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