{"product_id":"the-english-poems-9781848613577","title":"The English Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Gray (1716 - 1771) is a poet with an strange reputation. At least one of his poems is considered to be an indispensable classic of English poetry; others provide quotable lines or phrases that live on two and a half centuries later, often without the users realising that he was their original author. His oeuvre is slim, and he ceased writing poetry long before his death. He was offered the Laureateship, but declined the post. Some of his work is worthy of consignment to the history books; many poems however show astonishing verve and virtuosity, and it is clear that he was something of a prodigy. He gave up writing verse seriously, perhaps because he too sensed that the fire had burned down to little more than embers. So what is left? Enough work, it should be said, to support the slender reputation that still clings to his name, but it is true that he never managed again to hit the heights of the 'Elegy', by any standards an astonishing piece of work. Gray's early reputation was founded upon this poem; it was published early, on its own, and ran though eleven editions, including an illustrated volume and a Latin translation by other hands. In this book you will find all of his verse in English - he also wrote in Greek and Latin, but translations of these would offer little to the modern reader and they have thus been excluded. An alternative, earlier, version of the 'Elegy' is however included, making a fascinating comparison with the canonical text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Note on the Text Bibliography Chronology  Poems by Mr Gray (1768) Ode on the Spring Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College Hymn to Adversity The Progress of Poesy The Bard The Fatal Sisters The Descent of Odin The Triumphs of Owen Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard  from Six Poems by Mr T Gray (1753) A Long Story Ode For Music On L[or]d H[olland']s Seat Near M[argat]e, K[en]t  Appendix Stanza's wrote in a country church-yard (The Eton Manuscript)  Poems Published Posthumously Agrippina, a Tragedy\t Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West Hymn to Ignorance The Alliance of Education and Government Stanzas to Mr. Bentley Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude Epitaph on Mrs Clerke Epitaph on a Child Epitaph on Mrs Mason Epitaph on Sir William Williams [Sketch of His Own Character] [The Death of Hoel] [Caradoc] [Conan] The Candidate Verses from Shakespeare [Song I] [Song II] Satire on the Heads of Houses [Tophet] [Invitation to Mason] [Couplet about Birds] [Parody on an Epitaph] [Impromptus] [Lines on Dr Robert Smith] Lines written at Burnham Lines on the Accession of George III [Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern] The Characters of the Christ-Cross Row, by a Critic, to Mrs -  -  Verse Fragments  Translations Translation from Dante, Inferno Canto xxxiii 1-78 Translation from Statius, Thebaid VI 646-88, 704-24 Translation from Statius, Thebaid IX 319-26 Translation from Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata,  Cto 14, St. 32. Imitated from Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1. Imitated from Propertius. Lib: 3: Eleg: 5.  Notes","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771608498519,"sku":"9781848613577","price":14.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781848613577.jpg?v=1758728489","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-english-poems-9781848613577","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}