| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consi... | John Clare | Thomas Gray | Letters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | transcription of the poem headed 'the progress of poesy./ thos. gray' | Mary Groom | Thomas Gray | The Progress of Poesy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am now reading Gray's life and letters.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Gray | Life and Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Gray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Thomas Gray | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I once parodied Gray's Bard without intending the least disrespect for that fine ode.' | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Gray | The Bard: A pindaric ode | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ... | General James Wolfe | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
| 1800-1849 | 'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaini... | Thomas Carter | Gray | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Gray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | Thomas Gray | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | Thomas Gray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Gray | The Works of Thomas Gray | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school abotch, brick dust or even saw-dus... | Charlotte Sussannah Fry | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over some of Gray's Poems. I am almost tempted to agree in Johnson's character of these compositions...' | Thomas Green | Thomas Gray | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes 4 references to Gray's works V.1 p.73 (Ode to adversity), p. 91 (The progress of poesy); v.2 p.55 (The fa... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Thomas Gray | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F----R. May 9 1800?? I declare, had I my pilgrimage to begin anew through the wilderness, I would not gi... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | Thomas Gray | Elegy written in a country churchyard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wolfe was a great admirer of Gray's "Elegy"; and as he was going down the river with his officers, previous to the st... | James Wolfe | Thomas Gray | 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Thomas Gray | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sir, I do not think Gray a first-rate poet. He has not a bold imagination, nor much command of words. The obscurity i... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | The Bard: A Pindaric Ode | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | James Boswell | Thomas Gray | The Bard: A Pindaric Ode | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | James Boswell | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Gray | [Odes] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Mr Murphy | Thomas Gray | [Memoirs] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Mr Murphy | Thomas Gray | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | [Memoirs] | Print: Book |
| | '[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Talking of Gray's "Odes", he said, "They ar... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Gray | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Elizabeth Montagu | Thomas Gray | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Moder... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you f... | Robert Southey | Thomas Gray Gray | Ode on the Spring | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you f... | Robert Southey | Thomas Gray Gray | Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes’ | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 28 July 1769:]
'I only saw the Cambridge Ode in a newspaper [...] I thought t... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Gray | ?Ode for Music | Print: Newspaper |