BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE GRAY'S Complete Works, including his Letters, are edited by Edmund Gosse. There is an excellent volume of selections of both verse and prose in the Athenæum Press Series, edited by William Lyon Phelps. This contains a bibliography. The standard life of Gray is by Edmund Gosse in the English Men of Letters Series, new edition in 1889. The most important essays are by Matthew Arnold in Ward's English Poets, vol. iii; by Lowell in his Latest Literary Essays; by Austin Dobson in Eighteenth Century Vignettes; and by Leslie Stephen in Hours in a Library. The authoritative text of Gray's poems is Dodsley's, published in 1768, and corrected by Gray himself. The most important manuscript is the Pembroke MS., found among Gray's papers after his death. Goldsmith's Works were edited by Peter Cunningham in 1854. Later editions are the Bohn in five volumes, by J. W. M. Gibbs; Poems, Plays and Essays by J. Aikin and H. T. Tuckerman; and Miscellaneous Works with a Memoir by David Masson-the Globe edition. The standard life of Goldsmith is that by J. Forster, which has passed through several editions. Irving's more literary account is based on this. The Goldsmith number of the English Men of Letters Series, by William Black, is excellent. Other biographies are by A. Dobson in the Great Writers Series, Wm. M. Rossetti in Lives of Famous Poets, and Elbert Hubbard in Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great. There are, of course, many references to Goldsmith in Boswell's Johnson, but they are generally inspired by jealousy. The principal essays are by Macaulay, by Thackeray in his English Humorists, by DeQuincey in Essays on the Poets, and by Dobson in his Miscellanies. Among the important works dealing with the literary period to which Gray and Goldsmith belong, Perry's English Literature in the Eighteenth Century, Gosse's Eighteenth Century Literature, Phelps's Beginning of the English Romantic Movement, and Beers's English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century, are perhaps the most useful. Besant's London in the Eighteenth Century should also be consulted. 1748. Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe. Smollett's Roderick Random. Thomson's Castle of Indolence. 1749. Goldsmith took his B.A. 1749. Fielding's Tom Jones. degree. 1751. Gray's Elegy (written 1742- 1751. Sheridan born. 1750). 1752-54. Goldsmith a medical student in Edinburgh. 1753. Gray's Six Poems. 1750. Johnson's Rambler. 1752. Frances Burney born. Chatterton born. 1753-61. Hume's History of England. 1754-56. Goldsmith traveled and 1754. Fielding died. studied on the Continent. 1754. Gray wrote Progress of Poesy. 1757. Gray's Pindaric Odes. Goldsmith engaged to do hackwork for Griffiths the publisher. 1759. Goldsmith's Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe, The Bee; made the acquaintance of Johnson. born. Crabbe 1755. Johnson's Dictionary of the 1756. Burke's Our Ideas of the 1758. Johnson's Idler. 1759-69. Sir Joshua Reynolds' Essays in the Idler. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE-Continued GRAY AND GOLDSMITH. CONTEMPORARY LITERARY HISTORY. 1760. Goldsmith's Citizen of the 1760, Macpherson's Fragments of World. Ancient Poetry. 1761. Goldsmith's Memoirs of M. 1761. Smollett's Translation of Le de Voltaire. Sage's Gil Blas. ney. 1768. Goldsmith's Good-Natur'd 1768. Sterne's Sentimental JourMan. Standard edition of Gray's Poems. Elected Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. |