Free Book. Thomas Gray: A Life in Letters, Bill Roberts, Northern Academic Press 2016, ISBN , 09528103-3-9
This book was produced for the tercentenary of Thomas Gray’s birth in 2016 , an event which the literary world omitted to celebrate. As a result the author wishes to dispose of a number of free copies (hard back and soft back). These are free to anyone who writes to Dr Bill Roberts: [log in to unmask] (Ingleside, Kirkoswald, Penrith, CA10 1EW) and encloses (optional) two first class stamps (£1.52) towards return postage. The hardback edition (15 copies available) is illustrated and runs to 180 pages; the soft-back edition (55 copies available) is not illustrated and runs to 150 pages. The book is structured around extracts from 25 of Gray’s letters, plus editorial comment and brief notes on salient features of Gray’s life. The book is thus both biography and anthology .
“I have tried to use the letters to bring up topic after topic, aspect after aspect of Gray’s Life. The result is a different kind of biography: not following an uninterrupted time line, not trying to fill in every minute of every day. It also results in a different view of Gray: a subdued personality of warmth and kindness, a mind of astonishing quickness and range, an incomplete life....”
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