Introduction / Herbert W. Starr -- When curfew tolled the knell / W. M. Newman -- Gray's storied urn / Cleanth Brooks -- Gray's 'Elegy': "The skull beneath the skin" / Lyle Glazier -- "A youth to fortune and to fame unknown": a re-estimation / Herbert W. Starr -- Gray's 'Elegy': the biographical problem in literary criticism / Frank H. Ellis -- Gray's "Epitaph" revisited / Morse Peckham -- Stonecutter in Gray's "Elegy" / John H. Sutherland -- Ambivalence of Gray's 'Elegy' / A. E. Dyson -- Gray's 'Elegy' reconsidered / Ian Jack -- Proletarian literature / William Empson -- Bicentenary of Gray's "Elegy" / Carl J. Weber -- Gray's "Frail memoria" to West / Joseph Foladare.