Thomas Gray, the eighteenth century poet, classical scholar and professor of Cambridge University is widely known for his ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Thomas Gray, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Gray's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Gray's collected prose * Features three biographies - discover Gray's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Gray BRIEF INTRODUCTION: THOMAS GRAY The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Prose LIST OF PROSE TEXTS The Biographies THE LIFE AND POEMS OF THOMAS GRAY by George Gilfillan GRAY by Samuel Johnson THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF GRAY by John Bradshaw Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography of the enigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London. Roger Lonsdale's Introduction describes the origins, composition, and textual history of the Lives, and assesses Johnson's assumptions and aims as biographer and critic. The commentary provides a detailed literary and historical context, investigating Johnson's sources, relating the Lives to his own earlier writings and conversation, and to the critical opinions of his contemporaries, as well as illustrating their early reception. This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume two of four.