The Project Gutenberg EBook of Select Poems of Thomas Gray, by Thomas GrayThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: Select Poems of Thomas GrayAuthor: Thomas GrayContributor: Robert CarruthersEditor: William J. RolfeRelease Date: October 29, 2009 [EBook #30357]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELECT POEMS OF THOMAS GRAY ***Produced by Ron SwansonSELECT POEMSOFTHOMAS GRAY.EDITED, WITH NOTES,BYWILLIAM J. ROLFE, A.M.,FORMERLY HEAD MASTER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.WITH ENGRAVINGS.LogoNEW YORK:HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,FRANKLIN SQUARE.1883.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, byHARPER & BROTHERS,In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.PREFACE.Many editions of Gray have been published in the last fifty years, some of them very elegant, and some showingconsiderable editorial labor, but not one, so far as I am aware, critically exact either in text or in notes. No editor sinceMathias (A.D. 1814) has given the 2d line of the Elegy as Gray wrote and printed it; while Mathias's mispunctuation of the123d line has been copied by his successors, almost without exception. Other variations from the early editions arementioned in the notes.It is a curious fact that the ...
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