Select Poems from the Works of Thomas Gray: Viz. an Ode on Spring. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Ode

Marc Notes: Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. This collection presents a selection of his poetry. Publisher Marketing: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT009505Each poem has separate pagination; p.5 of the penultimate poem is misnumbered 3. Also issued as part of: The literary miscellany; or elegant selections of the most admired fugitive pieces, and extracts from works of the greatest merit: .. 'Manchester, 17Manchester: printed by G. Nicholson and Co., Manchester. Sold by T. Knott; and Champante & Whitrow, London, 1795. [2],2,2,4,2,4,3(ie 5), [1],4p.; 24 Contributor Bio:  Gray, Thomas political researcher