Theme: Serious poetry of Thomas Gray

References
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3. John D. Baird, 'Gray, Thomas (1716–1771)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(Oxford University Press, 2004) Accessed 21 Feb 2012
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8. Gilfillan, George, dissertation in The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray and Smollett1855, kindle ebook ASIN B004TQHGGE
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10. Walpole, Letters, vi. 206
11.Edmund William Gosse, Gray (London: Macmillan, 1902), p. 133 at books.google.com
12. "Analysis of Ode on Spring by Thomas Gray". Poem Analysis. 29 December 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
13. "Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Poems : Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West]". www.thomasgray.org. Retrieved 12 December2019.
14. "Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Poems : Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes". www.thomasgray.org. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
15. "Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Poems : Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College". www.thomasgray.org. Retrieved 12 December2019.
16. "Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Poems : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". www.thomasgray.org. Retrieved 12 December2019.
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19. "Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive / Works / The Fatal Sisters: An Ode. (Thomas Gray)". www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
20. Letter, dated 12 June 1750, in which Gray sent the completed poem to Horace Walpole. Thomas Gray website