Prefatory narrative. Mr. Gray's father dies, and the year after he returns
to Cambridge, and takes a degree in civil law; during that interval he cor-
responds with Mr. West
1. From Mr. WEST. His spirits not as yet improved by country air. Has
begun to read Tacitus, but does not relish him
2. To Mr. WEST. Earnest hopes for his friend's better health, as the warm
weather comes on. Defence of Tacitus, and his character. Of the new
Dunciad. Sends him a speech from the first scene of Agrippina
The plan, dramatis personæ, and all the speeches which Mr. Gray wrote of
that tragedy, inserted .
3. From Mr. WEST. Criticism on his friend's tragic style. Latin hexa-
meters on his own cough
5. From Mr. WEST. Answer to the former, on the subject of antiquated ex-
pressions
Of his own peculiar species of melancholy. Inscription
for a wood in Greek hexameters. Argument and exordium of a Latin
heroic epistie, from Sophonisba to Massinissa