Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , published in 1751.
1716–1771. Thomas Gray by John Giles Eccardt © National Portrait Gallery, London. Alongside Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray is one of the most important English poets of the 18th century. Samuel Johnson was the first of many critics to put forward the view that Gray spoke in two languages, one public and the other private, and that the private ...
Thomas Gray, (born Dec. 26, 1716, London—died July 30, 1771, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.), English poet whose “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” is one of the best known of English lyric poems. Although his literary output was slight, he was the dominant poetic figure in the mid-18th century and a precursor of the Romantic movement.
The Thomas Gray Archive is a collaborative digital archive and research project devoted to the life and work of eighteenth-century poet, letter-writer, and scholar Thomas Gray (1716-1771), author of the acclaimed 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751).
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. By Thomas Gray. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight,
Nov 18, 2021 · Thomas Gray. Born: December 26, 1716, London, England. Died: July 30, 1771 (aged 54), Cambridge, England. Notable Works: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, classical scholar and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge, best known for his poem Elegy Written in a Country ...
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is the British writer Thomas Gray's most famous poem, first published in 1751. The poem's speaker calmly mulls over death while standing in a rural graveyard in the evening.
The Thomas Gray Archive is a collaborative digital archive and research project devoted to the life and work of eighteenth-century poet, letter-writer, and scholar Thomas Gray (1716-1771), author of the acclaimed 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751).
Jul 14, 2011 · 6. Thomas James Gray. @ThomasJamesGray. ·. 13h. My super band would be John Lennon & Ed Sheeran & I’d call it ‘The Walrus & the Walnut’. Ed wouldn’t be allowed to sing but he could do a LITTLE BIT of his looping trick. Only once he’d apologised to John for his performance in that film though. 1.
May 26, 2023 · A soldier disobeyed a court martial warning and told the family of Thomas Disbrow of Neptune that he died trying to save lives. ... Gray-Viana's grandfather was in the Army Corps of Engineers and ...
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