Restoration & Augustan
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) was a reclusive Cambridge scholar who published only a handful of poems in his lifetime, yet his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard became one of the most quoted poems in the English language.
His Pindaric odes The Progress of Poesy and The Bard helped carry English verse from Augustan restraint toward the Romantic sublime.
Poems (43)
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Ode on the Spring
- On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
- The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode
- The Bard: A Pindaric Ode
- Hymn to Adversity
- Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude
- The Fatal Sisters
- The Descent of Odin
- The Death of Hoel
- The Triumph of Owen
- Ode for Music
- A Long Story
- Epitaph on Mrs Jane Clarke
- Stanzas Suggested by a View of the Seat and Ruins at Kingsgate, in Kent, 1766
- Translation from Statius
- Gray on Himself
- Sonnet on the Death of Richard West
- Hymn to Ignorance: A Fragment
- The Alliance of Education and Government: A Fragment
- Stanzas to Mr. Richard Bentley
- Epitaph on a Child
- Epitaph on Sir William Williams
- Caradoc
- Conan
- Jemmy Twitcher: or, The Cambridge Courtship
- Shakespeare Verses
- Satire upon the Heads; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring
- Amatory Lines
- Song
- Comic Lines
- Couplet about Birds
- Tophet
- Parody on an Epitaph
- Impromptus
- Stanza
- Translation from Statius (Thebaid VI, 646-688)
- Translation from Tasso (Gerusalemme Liberata XIV, st. 32)
- Imitated from Propertius (III. v. 1-2)
- Translation from Propertius (III. v. 19ff.)
- Translation from Propertius (II. i): To Maecenas
- Translation from Dante, Inferno, Canto 33 (Count Ugolino)