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Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , published in 1751.
Thomas Gray (born Dec. 26, 1716, London—died July 30, 1771, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) was an English poet whose “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” is one of the best known of English lyric poems.
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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'sshop kept by his mother. He was the fifth and only surviving child of twelvechildren born to Dorothy (1685-1753) and Philip Gray (1676-1741). His fatherPhilip, a "money-scrivener" in the City of London by profession, hadmarrie...
The spring and summer of 1742 - the interval between his return fromabroad and his move toCambridge - saw Gray's first andmost prolific period of creativeactivity. The year was fruitful inpoetic effort, of which much remained incomplete however. TheAgrippina, theDe principiis cogitandi,the "Hymn toIgnorance", in which he contemplates his return to ...
The reception and criticisms of the two Pindaric odes accelerated Gray'smovement away from public critical debate, and thereafter he virtuallyceased to write original poetry. He devoted himself even moreto private study, especially English antiquities and naturalhistory. He greatly admired the works James Macpherson published as Fragments of Ancien...
As a poet Gray was admired and influential out of all proportion to hisambitions and modest output of verse. The whole of his anthumouslypublished poetry amounts to fewer than 1,000 lines. He was unquestionablyone of the least productive and yet, besides William Collins (1721-1759), the predominant poetic figure of the middle decades of the 18th ce...
The Poetical WorksofThomas Gray: English and Latin.Edited with an introduction, life,notes and a bibliography by John Bradshaw. The Aldine edition of theBritish poets series. London: George Bell an...Gray: Poetry andProse. With essays by Johnson, Goldsmith and others.With anIntroduction and Notes by J. Crofts. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1948 [1st ed.1926] [Contains a collection of contemporary essays o...Gray's Poems, Letters andEssays.Introduction by John Drinkwater. Biographical Notes by LewisGibbs. London [etc.]: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1912 [reprinted 1955].Encyclopedia Britannica. A New Survey ofUniversal Knowledge.In 24 vols. Chicago / London / Toronto:Encyclopedia Britannica, Ltd., 1957, 1971, vol. 10.Mason, William [1775]: "Memoirsof the Life and Writings of Mr. Gray". The Poems of Mr. Gray. Towhich are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings, ed. by WilliamMason. York: printed by A. Ward; an...Johnson, Samuel: "The Life ofGray" (1781) [e-text], from The Lives of the Poets,ed. G.B. Hill, 3 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905, e-text ed. by JackLynch, Rutgers University.Nov 18, 2021 · Gray died on 30 July 1771 in Cambridge, following a week of illness. He was buried alongside his mother in the churchyard of St Giles’ church in Stoke Poges. It is often thought this was the setting for his famous Elegy.
He died at 11 p.m. on 30 July 1771 in his rooms at Pembroke. His old friend James Brown, now master of Pembroke, and his cousin Mary Antrobus, the Cambridge postmistress, accompanied his corpse to Stoke Poges where, in accordance with his wishes, he was buried in his mother's grave early in the morning of 6 August. His name was not added to the ...
In November 1741 Gray's father died; Gray's extant letters contain no mention of this event. Except for his mother, fellow poet Richard West was the person most dear to Gray, and his death from consumption on June 1, 1742 was a grievous loss to the Gray.
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.
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