EDITIONS PRINTED IN GRAY'S LIFETIME
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
[An adapta-
tion. ]
Saurin, B. -J. Blanche et Guiscard, Tragédie. 1763. [Adapted from Tancred
and Sigismunda. ] New edn. 1772.
Schizzati, F. Le Stagioni. Parma, 1818.
Schlegel, J. H. Eduard und Eleonora: Tankred und Sigismunda. In
Trauerspiele. 1764.
Anonymous. La Estate. Modena, 1817. .
La Primavera. Bologna, 1820.
Die Jaargeeijden naar Thomson. Amsterdam, 1803. Adapted for music
by Haydn.
B. RICHARD JAGO
Edge-Hill; or, the Rural Prospect delineated and moralized. A poem, in
four books. 1767.
Labour and Genius. 1768.
Poems, moral and descriptive. . . . To which is added, some account of the life
and writings of Mr Jago. 1784.
Poetical Works, collected in Anderson, Poets of Great Britain, vol. xi, 1793;
Chalmers, English Poets, vol. xvii, 1810. Also in other collections.
1
C. LORD LYTTELTON
Blenheim. 1728.
An Epistle to Mr Pope from a young gentleman at Rome. 1730.
The Progress of Love, in four eclogues. 1732.
Advice to a Lady. 1733.
Letters from a Persian in England, to his Friend at Ispahan 2 vols. 1735.
2nd, 3rd and 4th edns, 1735; 5th edn, 1744.
Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St Paul in a Letter to
Gilbert West. 1747. 9th edn. 1799. Frequently rptd and transl. into
French.
To the Memory of a Lady, a Monody. 1747 [1748).
A Modest Apology for my own Conduct. 1748.
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449
:
Dialogues of the Dead. 1760.
An additional Dialogue of the Dead, between Pericles and Aristides, being a
sequel to the Dialogue between Pericles and Cosmo. 1760.
Four new Dialogues of the Dead. 1765.
The history of the life of Henry II and of the age in which he lived. 3 vols.
1767.
Works . . . now first collected together: with some other pieces never before
printed. 1 vol. 1774. 2nd edn, 1775; 3rd edn (3 vols. ), 1776.
A Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire, etc. 1781.
Poetical Works, collected in Anderson, Poets of Great Britain, vol. x, 1793
Chalmers, English Poets, vol. XIV (with Johnson's life), 1810; and in
other collections.
D. WILLIAM SOMERVILE or SOMERVILLE
As to the spelling of the name, see text, p. 271, note 2.
The Two Springs. A Fable. 1725.
Occasional Poems, Translations, Fables, Tales. 1727.
The Chace, a Poem. 1735. 2nd and 3rd edns, 1735; 4th edn, 1757; 5th edn,
1767; 6th edn, 1773; modern illustrated edn, 1896.
Hobbinol, or the Rural Games. 1740. 2nd and 3rd edns, 1740; 4th edn, 1757;
5th edn, 1758; 6th edn, 1773.
Field Sports. 1742.
The Chase, a Poem: to which is added Hobbinol, or the Rural Games.
Birmingham, 1767.
The Wicker Chair, a Burlesque Poem. First ptd in Waldron's Collection of
Miscellaneous Poetry. 1802.
Poetical Works, 2 vols. Glasgow, 1766. See also Anderson, Poets of Great
Britain, vol. viii, 1793; Chalmers, English Poets, vol. xi (with Johnson's
life), 1810; and other collections.
E. GENERAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Aikin, J. An Essay on the plan and character of Thomson's Seasons.
1778.
B. , T. A Criticism by T. B. on the New Sophonisba, a tragedy. 1730.
Bayne, W. James Thomson. (Famous Scots Series. ) Edinburgh, 1898.
Beljame, A. Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au dix-
huitième Siècle. Paris, 1881.
Buchan, David Steuart (Erskine), 11th earl of. Essays on the lives and
writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the poet Thomson, with some
pieces of Thomson's never before published. 1792.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. Vol. v. 1905. [Chaps.
X, XII. ]
Cunningham, P. (ed. ). Unpublished Letters from Thomson to Mallet. (Philo-
biblon Soc. Biog. and Hist. Miscellanies, vol. iv. )
Gjerset, Knut. Der Einfluss von James Thomsons Jahreszeiten auf die
deutsche Literatur des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, etc. Heidelberg,
1898.
Gosse, Edmund. A History of Eighteenth Century Literature. 1889.
Ibershoff, C. H. A German Translation of Passages in Thomson's Seasons.
(Mod. Lang. Notes, xxvi, pp. 107-109. April, 1911. )
Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets. 1779-81.
Macaulay, G. C. Thomson. (English Men of Letters. ) 1908.
More, Jacob. Strictures, Critical and Sentimental, on Thomson's Seasons.
E. L. X,
29
1777.
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450
Bibliography
Morel, Léon. James Thomson, sa vie et ses autres. Paris, 1895.
Musidorus : a Poem sacred to the memory of Mr James Thomson. [1748. ]
Phillimore, Sir R. J. Memoirs and Correspondence of George, Lord Lyttelton.
1845.
Schmeding, G. A. Jacob Thomson, ein vergessener Dichter des achtzehnten
Jahrhunderts. Braunschweig, 1889.
Shairp, J. C. On Poetic Interpretation of Nature. Edinburgh, 1877.
See, also, bibliography to chap. VII, post.
CHAPTER VI
GRAY
For an account of the extant manuscripts of Gray, see notes at end of
Gray's Poems, ed. Bradshaw, J. (Aldine edn), 1891.
A.
EDITIONS PRINTED IN GRAY'S LIFETIME
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Dodsley. 1747. (Published
anonymously. )
Dodsley's collection (vol. 11, 1748) contains the Eton Ode (anon. ), the
Ode on the Spring, and the Ode on the death of a favourite Cat, the last
two for the first time.
An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard. Dodsley. 1751. 2nd edn, 1751;
4th edn, 1751. (With an Advertisement by Horace Walpole. )
Printed also in The Magazine of Magazines, Feb. 28, 1751; in The
London Magazine, Feb. 28; in The Scots Magazine, Mar. 31; in The
Grand Magazine of Magazines, April 30. 8th edn, 1753; 9th edn, 1754.
Facsimile of the original manuscript of the Elegy in Pembroke College,
Cambridge. 1897.
Designs by Mr R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr T. Gray. 1753, 1765. (The
Ode on the Spring; On the death of a favourite cat; On a Distant
Prospect of Eton; Hymn to Adversity; Long Story; Elegy. )
Odes by Mr Gray. Strawberry Hill, 1757.
Poems by Mr Gray. 1768. Glasgow, 1768. New edn. 1770.
Ode performed in the Senate House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769, at the
Installation of His Grace Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton,
Chancellor of the University. Cambridge, 1769.
B. LATER EDITIONS, INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE
Gray's Poems are contained in the principal collections of British Poets
(Bell, Johnson, Anderson, Chalmers, etc. ).
The Poems of Mr Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and
Writings. By Mason, W. York, 1775. Another edn. 4 vols. 1778.
Poems. 1776, 1778, 1786, 1799 (ed. Jones, S. ).
Matthisson, F. von. Letters written from . . . the Continent. . . . With an
Appendix in which are included three Letters of Gray's. 1799.
Gray's Works. Ed. Mason, W. , with extracts from Gray's MSS by Mathias,
T. J. 2 vols. 1814.
Mason, W. Poems. 1764. 5th edn. York, 1779. New edn. 3 vols.
York, 1796-7.
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451
8
Poems, with Life, Notes, and an Essay on his Poetry by Mitford, J. 1814.
Works, with a Life of the Author and an Essay on his Poetry, by Mitford, J.
2 vols. 1816.
Poetical Works, with Life etc. by Mitford, J. (Aldine Poets. ) 1830.
Works, etc. Ed. Mitford, J. 4 vols. 1836. Vol. v, containing Gray's cor-
respondence with Nicholls, etc. 1843.
Poetical Works. Ed. Moultrie, J. Eton, 1845.
with a new life by Mitford, J. 1847.
- with the new life, and a Lecture on the writings of Gray by the Earl of
Carlisle. 4th edn. Eton, 1852. 5th edn. 1854. Other edns, 1863, 1866.
The Correspondence of Gray and Mason, etc. Ed. Mitford, J. 1853. 2nd edn.
1855.
Poems of Gray, Parnell, Collins, Green, and Warton. 1853. Ed. Willmott,
R. A. [The account of Gray is brief, but excellent. ]
Works. Ed. Gosse, E. 4 vols. 1884.
Gray and his friends. Letters and relics. Ed. Tovey, D. C. Cambridge, 1890.
Poetical Works, New Aldine Edition, with Life, Notes, and Bibliography
by Bradshaw, J. 1891.
English Poems of Gray. Ed. Tovey, D. O. Cambridge, 1898.
Gray's Letters. Ed. Tovey, D. C. 3 vols. 1900-12.
[Gives evidence of Sir Walter Scott's interest in Norse literature. ]
For translations and parodies see Bradshaw's bibliography, supra.
C. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
See, also, sec. B.
Arnold, M. Introduction to the selection from Gray's Poems, printed in
T. H. Ward's English Poets, vol. 111. 1880.
Gosse, E. Gray. (English Men of Letters. ) 1882. New edn. 1889.
Johnson, Samuel. Gray. Lives of the Poets. Ed. Hill, G. B.
Vol. III.
Oxford, 1905. (For criticisms of the above see Bradshaw, U. S. p. 317. ]
Kittredge, G. L. Gray's Knowledge of Old Norse. In Appendix to Intro-
duction to Phelps's Selections from the Poetry and Prose of T. Gray.
Boston, 1894.
Mackenzie, Henry. Introduction to Gray's Fatal Sisters (1768). In Works,
vol. VIII. Edinburgh, 1808.
Mathias, T. J. Observations on the writings and on the character of Mr Gray.
1815.
Stephen, Sir L. Thomas Gray. D. of N. B. vol. XXIII. 1890.
CHAPTER VII
YOUNG, COLLINS, AND LESSER POETS OF THE AGE OF
JOHNSON
I. GENERAL
A. Collections
The principal works of the writers treated in this chapter will be found
in the following Collections of British Poets :
The Poets of Great Britain from Chaucer to Churchill. (Bell's edn. ) 109 vols.
Edinburgh, 1777–92.
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452
Bibliography
The Works of the English Poets: with prefaces biographical and critical by
Johnson, S. 68 vols.
tion. ]
Saurin, B. -J. Blanche et Guiscard, Tragédie. 1763. [Adapted from Tancred
and Sigismunda. ] New edn. 1772.
Schizzati, F. Le Stagioni. Parma, 1818.
Schlegel, J. H. Eduard und Eleonora: Tankred und Sigismunda. In
Trauerspiele. 1764.
Anonymous. La Estate. Modena, 1817. .
La Primavera. Bologna, 1820.
Die Jaargeeijden naar Thomson. Amsterdam, 1803. Adapted for music
by Haydn.
B. RICHARD JAGO
Edge-Hill; or, the Rural Prospect delineated and moralized. A poem, in
four books. 1767.
Labour and Genius. 1768.
Poems, moral and descriptive. . . . To which is added, some account of the life
and writings of Mr Jago. 1784.
Poetical Works, collected in Anderson, Poets of Great Britain, vol. xi, 1793;
Chalmers, English Poets, vol. xvii, 1810. Also in other collections.
1
C. LORD LYTTELTON
Blenheim. 1728.
An Epistle to Mr Pope from a young gentleman at Rome. 1730.
The Progress of Love, in four eclogues. 1732.
Advice to a Lady. 1733.
Letters from a Persian in England, to his Friend at Ispahan 2 vols. 1735.
2nd, 3rd and 4th edns, 1735; 5th edn, 1744.
Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St Paul in a Letter to
Gilbert West. 1747. 9th edn. 1799. Frequently rptd and transl. into
French.
To the Memory of a Lady, a Monody. 1747 [1748).
A Modest Apology for my own Conduct. 1748.
1
1
## p. 449 (#475) ############################################
Chapter V
449
:
Dialogues of the Dead. 1760.
An additional Dialogue of the Dead, between Pericles and Aristides, being a
sequel to the Dialogue between Pericles and Cosmo. 1760.
Four new Dialogues of the Dead. 1765.
The history of the life of Henry II and of the age in which he lived. 3 vols.
1767.
Works . . . now first collected together: with some other pieces never before
printed. 1 vol. 1774. 2nd edn, 1775; 3rd edn (3 vols. ), 1776.
A Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire, etc. 1781.
Poetical Works, collected in Anderson, Poets of Great Britain, vol. x, 1793
Chalmers, English Poets, vol. XIV (with Johnson's life), 1810; and in
other collections.
D. WILLIAM SOMERVILE or SOMERVILLE
As to the spelling of the name, see text, p. 271, note 2.
The Two Springs. A Fable. 1725.
Occasional Poems, Translations, Fables, Tales. 1727.
The Chace, a Poem. 1735. 2nd and 3rd edns, 1735; 4th edn, 1757; 5th edn,
1767; 6th edn, 1773; modern illustrated edn, 1896.
Hobbinol, or the Rural Games. 1740. 2nd and 3rd edns, 1740; 4th edn, 1757;
5th edn, 1758; 6th edn, 1773.
Field Sports. 1742.
The Chase, a Poem: to which is added Hobbinol, or the Rural Games.
Birmingham, 1767.
The Wicker Chair, a Burlesque Poem. First ptd in Waldron's Collection of
Miscellaneous Poetry. 1802.
Poetical Works, 2 vols. Glasgow, 1766. See also Anderson, Poets of Great
Britain, vol. viii, 1793; Chalmers, English Poets, vol. xi (with Johnson's
life), 1810; and other collections.
E. GENERAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Aikin, J. An Essay on the plan and character of Thomson's Seasons.
1778.
B. , T. A Criticism by T. B. on the New Sophonisba, a tragedy. 1730.
Bayne, W. James Thomson. (Famous Scots Series. ) Edinburgh, 1898.
Beljame, A. Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au dix-
huitième Siècle. Paris, 1881.
Buchan, David Steuart (Erskine), 11th earl of. Essays on the lives and
writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the poet Thomson, with some
pieces of Thomson's never before published. 1792.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. Vol. v. 1905. [Chaps.
X, XII. ]
Cunningham, P. (ed. ). Unpublished Letters from Thomson to Mallet. (Philo-
biblon Soc. Biog. and Hist. Miscellanies, vol. iv. )
Gjerset, Knut. Der Einfluss von James Thomsons Jahreszeiten auf die
deutsche Literatur des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, etc. Heidelberg,
1898.
Gosse, Edmund. A History of Eighteenth Century Literature. 1889.
Ibershoff, C. H. A German Translation of Passages in Thomson's Seasons.
(Mod. Lang. Notes, xxvi, pp. 107-109. April, 1911. )
Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets. 1779-81.
Macaulay, G. C. Thomson. (English Men of Letters. ) 1908.
More, Jacob. Strictures, Critical and Sentimental, on Thomson's Seasons.
E. L. X,
29
1777.
## p. 450 (#476) ############################################
450
Bibliography
Morel, Léon. James Thomson, sa vie et ses autres. Paris, 1895.
Musidorus : a Poem sacred to the memory of Mr James Thomson. [1748. ]
Phillimore, Sir R. J. Memoirs and Correspondence of George, Lord Lyttelton.
1845.
Schmeding, G. A. Jacob Thomson, ein vergessener Dichter des achtzehnten
Jahrhunderts. Braunschweig, 1889.
Shairp, J. C. On Poetic Interpretation of Nature. Edinburgh, 1877.
See, also, bibliography to chap. VII, post.
CHAPTER VI
GRAY
For an account of the extant manuscripts of Gray, see notes at end of
Gray's Poems, ed. Bradshaw, J. (Aldine edn), 1891.
A.
EDITIONS PRINTED IN GRAY'S LIFETIME
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Dodsley. 1747. (Published
anonymously. )
Dodsley's collection (vol. 11, 1748) contains the Eton Ode (anon. ), the
Ode on the Spring, and the Ode on the death of a favourite Cat, the last
two for the first time.
An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard. Dodsley. 1751. 2nd edn, 1751;
4th edn, 1751. (With an Advertisement by Horace Walpole. )
Printed also in The Magazine of Magazines, Feb. 28, 1751; in The
London Magazine, Feb. 28; in The Scots Magazine, Mar. 31; in The
Grand Magazine of Magazines, April 30. 8th edn, 1753; 9th edn, 1754.
Facsimile of the original manuscript of the Elegy in Pembroke College,
Cambridge. 1897.
Designs by Mr R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr T. Gray. 1753, 1765. (The
Ode on the Spring; On the death of a favourite cat; On a Distant
Prospect of Eton; Hymn to Adversity; Long Story; Elegy. )
Odes by Mr Gray. Strawberry Hill, 1757.
Poems by Mr Gray. 1768. Glasgow, 1768. New edn. 1770.
Ode performed in the Senate House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769, at the
Installation of His Grace Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton,
Chancellor of the University. Cambridge, 1769.
B. LATER EDITIONS, INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE
Gray's Poems are contained in the principal collections of British Poets
(Bell, Johnson, Anderson, Chalmers, etc. ).
The Poems of Mr Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and
Writings. By Mason, W. York, 1775. Another edn. 4 vols. 1778.
Poems. 1776, 1778, 1786, 1799 (ed. Jones, S. ).
Matthisson, F. von. Letters written from . . . the Continent. . . . With an
Appendix in which are included three Letters of Gray's. 1799.
Gray's Works. Ed. Mason, W. , with extracts from Gray's MSS by Mathias,
T. J. 2 vols. 1814.
Mason, W. Poems. 1764. 5th edn. York, 1779. New edn. 3 vols.
York, 1796-7.
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Chapter VI
451
8
Poems, with Life, Notes, and an Essay on his Poetry by Mitford, J. 1814.
Works, with a Life of the Author and an Essay on his Poetry, by Mitford, J.
2 vols. 1816.
Poetical Works, with Life etc. by Mitford, J. (Aldine Poets. ) 1830.
Works, etc. Ed. Mitford, J. 4 vols. 1836. Vol. v, containing Gray's cor-
respondence with Nicholls, etc. 1843.
Poetical Works. Ed. Moultrie, J. Eton, 1845.
with a new life by Mitford, J. 1847.
- with the new life, and a Lecture on the writings of Gray by the Earl of
Carlisle. 4th edn. Eton, 1852. 5th edn. 1854. Other edns, 1863, 1866.
The Correspondence of Gray and Mason, etc. Ed. Mitford, J. 1853. 2nd edn.
1855.
Poems of Gray, Parnell, Collins, Green, and Warton. 1853. Ed. Willmott,
R. A. [The account of Gray is brief, but excellent. ]
Works. Ed. Gosse, E. 4 vols. 1884.
Gray and his friends. Letters and relics. Ed. Tovey, D. C. Cambridge, 1890.
Poetical Works, New Aldine Edition, with Life, Notes, and Bibliography
by Bradshaw, J. 1891.
English Poems of Gray. Ed. Tovey, D. O. Cambridge, 1898.
Gray's Letters. Ed. Tovey, D. C. 3 vols. 1900-12.
[Gives evidence of Sir Walter Scott's interest in Norse literature. ]
For translations and parodies see Bradshaw's bibliography, supra.
C. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
See, also, sec. B.
Arnold, M. Introduction to the selection from Gray's Poems, printed in
T. H. Ward's English Poets, vol. 111. 1880.
Gosse, E. Gray. (English Men of Letters. ) 1882. New edn. 1889.
Johnson, Samuel. Gray. Lives of the Poets. Ed. Hill, G. B.
Vol. III.
Oxford, 1905. (For criticisms of the above see Bradshaw, U. S. p. 317. ]
Kittredge, G. L. Gray's Knowledge of Old Norse. In Appendix to Intro-
duction to Phelps's Selections from the Poetry and Prose of T. Gray.
Boston, 1894.
Mackenzie, Henry. Introduction to Gray's Fatal Sisters (1768). In Works,
vol. VIII. Edinburgh, 1808.
Mathias, T. J. Observations on the writings and on the character of Mr Gray.
1815.
Stephen, Sir L. Thomas Gray. D. of N. B. vol. XXIII. 1890.
CHAPTER VII
YOUNG, COLLINS, AND LESSER POETS OF THE AGE OF
JOHNSON
I. GENERAL
A. Collections
The principal works of the writers treated in this chapter will be found
in the following Collections of British Poets :
The Poets of Great Britain from Chaucer to Churchill. (Bell's edn. ) 109 vols.
Edinburgh, 1777–92.
29-2
## p. 452 (#478) ############################################
452
Bibliography
The Works of the English Poets: with prefaces biographical and critical by
Johnson, S. 68 vols.
