Thomas Gray: A Life

About this book

This major biography of Thomas Gray (1716-1771) the first in nearly half a century expands our knowledge of the life of the English poet and our understanding of his personality and influential body of works. Robert L. Mack incorporates recent - and often radically revisionary - scholarship on Gray drawing on developments in eighteenth-century studies and gender studies as well as on extensive original archival research into the life of the poet and his family.