Author’s Preface Part One: The life 1. Cornhill and Eton: 1716–1734 2. Peterhouse: 1734–1737 3. Gray, West and Walpole: 1737–1739 4. France and Savoy: 1739 5. Italy: 1739–1741 6. The death of West and the return to Cambridge: 1741–1742 7. ‘The Power of Laziness’: 1742–1747 8. Fire in Cornhill: the Elegy and ‘A Long Story’: 1748–1751 9. The Six Poems and the death of Dorothy Gray: 1752–1753 10. The visit to Durham: the Pindaric Odes: 1753–1755 11. The move to Pembroke Hall: the Pindaric Odes (II): 1756–1757 12. Gray and Miss Speed: London and the British Museum: 1758–1759 13. Macpherson and Ossian: studies in Welsh and Norse Poetry: 1760–1761 14. A visit to Old Park: Nicholls, Algarotti and others: Lord Sandwich: 1762–1764 15. Glamis Castle and the Highlands…First Visit to the Lakes: 1765–1766 16. The Professorship of Modern History: Second Visit to the Lakes: 1768–1769 17. Bonstetten: 1770 18. The End: 1770–1771 Part Two: The works 1. The Poet 2. The Translator 3. The Letter Writer 4. The Scholar 5. The Critic 6. The Student of Natural History 7. Conclusion: The Man and the Writer Appendix: Gray’s poetic diction, by Iris Lytton Sells
Biography
A.L. Lytton Sells, a graduate of Cambridge and of the Sorbonne, had an extraordinarily long teaching career which began in 1923. He held various positions at the University of Padua, Indiana University and taught at University of Durham until his retirement.
