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A five volume set 'The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray' In five volumes. With a Frontispiece of Thomas Gray to volume I. Published by William Pickering. From 'The Aldine Edition of the British Poets.' Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 ? 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray began seriously writing poems in 1742, mainly after his close friend Richard West died. He moved to Cambridge and began a self-imposed programme of literary study, becoming one of the most learned men of his time, though he claimed to be lazy by inclination. Gray was a brilliant bookworm, a quiet, abstracted, dreaming scholar, often afraid of the shadows of his own fame. He became a Fellow first of Peterhouse, and later of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Gray came to be known as one of the "Graveyard poets" of the late 18th century, along with Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, and Christopher Smart. Gray perhaps knew these men, sharing ideas about death, mortality, and the finality and sublimity of death. William Pickering (2 April 1796 ? 27 April 1854) was an English publisher, notable for introducing cloth binding to British publishing. In full calf leather bindings with gilt embellishment to the spines. Externally, sound with rubbing and loss to spines. A spine label is missing from volume I. There is a bookplate to the front pastedown in all volumes. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with some scattered light foxing. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers SET3-C-4
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