Some of Gray's Contemporaries (NIVEL AVANZADO)

 

Edward Young  (1683-1765)
_____. The Brothers. Tragedy.
_____. The Last Day. Poem. 1713.
_____. Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. Satirical poems. 1725-8.
_____. The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts. Poem. 1742-45.
_____. Conjectures on Original Composition. Essay. 1759.
_____. Poetical Works. 2 vols.  1741.  4 vols.  1757.

—& other poems from the "Graveyard School":

Thomas Parnell. Night-piece on Death. 1721.
Robert Blair. The Grave. Poem. 1743.
Thomas Warton. The Pleasures of Melancholy. 1747.
James Hervey. Meditations among the Tombs. 1745-46.

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Other minor poets:

 
John Dyer (1700-1758)
_____. "Grongar Hill." Poem.
_____. The Ruins of Rome.  1740.
_____. The Fleece. 1757.

Charles Churchill (1731-1764)
_____. The Rosciad.  Satire against actors.
_____. The Prophecy of Famine. Satire against Scotland.
_____. An Epistle to William Hogarth. Satire.
_____. The Author. Satire (Smollett).


Warton, Joseph.  (1722-1800).
_____. The Enthusiast: or the Lover of Nature.  Poem. 1744.
_____.  An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Mr Pope.  2 vols.  London, 1756, 1782.

Warton, Thomas (Jr.). (1728-1790).
_____. The Pleasures of Melancholy. 1747.
_____.  Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser.  1754. 
_____. The History of English Poetry.  3 vols.  1774 (rev. 1775), 1778, 1781.

Editors & collectors: Percy and Brooke
Percy, Thomas (Bishop) (1729-1811), ed.  Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.  1765.
Brooke, Charlotte. (1740-1793), ed. Reliques of Irish Poetry.  1789.