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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. [1]
Thomas Gray was an 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 Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Born in Cornhill on December 26, 1716, Gray was the fifth of 12 children of Philip and Dorothy Antrobus Gray, and the only one to survive infancy. His father, a scrivener given to fits of violence, abused his wife; Dorothy left him at one point, but Philip threatened to pursue her and wreak vengeance on her, and she returned to him.
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Thomas Gray was born on December 26, 1716 in Cornhill, London. He was the fifth of 12 children of Philip and Dorothy Antrobus Gray, and the only one to survive infancy. His father, a scrivener, was violent and mentally unwell, causing his mother, who was a milliner, to leave him. Gray lived with his mother after his parents separated.
Despite publishing very few poems in his lifetime, Gray is considered to be one of the most important English literature poets of the eighteenth century. Thanks to his studious nature and education, his thorough knowledge of Classical Latin literature, as well as his considerable knowledge of older Anglo-Saxon traditions, Gray’s poems have elegance...
Ode on the Spring (written in 1742)On the Death of Richard West (written in 1742)Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes (written in 1747)Ode to a Distant Prospect of Eton College (written in 1747 and published anonymously)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).
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.
Gray, Thomas (1716–1771), poet and literary scholar, was born on 26 December 1716, the son of Philip Gray (1676–1741), scrivener, and Dorothy Antrobus (1685–1753), in his father's house in Cornhill (later numbered 41), close to the Royal Exchange in the City of London.
