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Thomas Gray was born on 26 December 1716 at 41 Cornhill, London , near St Michael's Church, in what was then a small milliner's shop kept by his mother. He was the fifth and only surviving child of twelve children born to Dorothy (1685-1753) and Philip Gray (1676-1741).
Nov 18, 2021 · 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 Churchyard, published in 1751.
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, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
Sep 20, 2012 · Thomas Gray (b. 1716–d. 1771) is one of the most significant English poets from the time of Alexander Pope’s death to the emergence of Blake and Wordsworth at the end of the 18th century.
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).
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).
May 17, 2018 · DIED: 1771, Cambridge, England. NATIONALITY: British. GENRE: Poetry, nonfiction. MAJOR WORKS: “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (1747) “Ode on the Spring” (1748) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1751) Essays and Criticism (1911) Overview.
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