THE

WORKS

OF

THOMAS GRAY.

TALBOYS AND WHEELER, PRINTEES, OXFORD.

THE

OF

THOMAS GRAY,

CONTAINING HIS

POEMS AND CORRESPONDENCE,

WITH

MEMOIRS

OF HIS

LIFE AND WRITINGS.

A NEW EDITION,

CONTAINING SOME ADDITIONS, NOT BEFORE PRINTED, WITH
NOTES OF THE VARIOUS EDITORS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HARDING, TRIPHOOK, AND LEPARD,

FINSBURY SQUARE.

MDCCCXXV.

824679

fI169-3.

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

SECTION I

LETTER

INTRODUCTION

Answer to the former

I. From Mr. West. Complains of his friend's silence

II. To Mr. West.

III. From Mr. West. Approbation of the Version.
Ridicule on the Cambridge Collection of Verses
on the Marriage of the Prince of Wales. Mr.
Mason's remarks on Gray's sentiments concern-
ing the mode of academical education
IV. To Mr. West. On the little encouragement which
he finds given to classical learning at Cambridge.
His aversion to metaphysical and mathematical
studies

V. From Mr. West. Answer to the former; advises
his correspondent not to give up poetry when he
applies himself to the law

VI. To Mr. Walpole. Excuse for not writing to

him, &c.

VII. From Mr. West. A Poetical Epistle, addressed to
his friends, taken in part from Tibullus and a
Prose Letter of Mr. Pope

VIII. To Mr. West. Thanks him for his Poetical Epistle.

Complains of low spirits. Lady Walpole's death,

and his concern for Mr. H. Walpole

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