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Focuses on the contribution of Thomas Gray in British literature. Approach to alternative nationalism; Engagement with nationalistic historiographies; Analysis of the poems `The Progress of Poesy' and `The Bard'; Manifestations of progress poem; Functions of translatio studii and translatio imperii; Genius loci as a rhetorical device.

This article focuses on the use of bards, and oral culture in the works by Thomas Gray. According to the author, the practice of bards, and oral culture in the works of Gray was not unusual since its growth in mid eighteenth century. It discusses the use of bards in mid eighteenth century in Great Britain, the criticism in Gray's poetry "The Bard," and Gray's use of oral prophesy, weaving, and typography. The author inferred that Gray was more interested in print, and literary marketplace than what most people believe.

The author describes annotations to the poem "The Bard" by Thomas Gray and written documents from Grey's friend William Mason, which are preserved at Pembroke College Library of Cambridge in England, and which refer to an undiscovered orchestration of "Bard" as an oratorio. Marginalia, descriptions of the proposed overture, and composer John Christopher Smith are also mentioned.

Discusses the possible sources for the poem 'The Bard,' by Thomas Gray. Analogues offered by poet Roger Lonsdale for Gray; Passages from Gray and Andrew Marvell which have verbal and syntactical correspondences.