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Thomas Gray
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Thomas Gray was a male poet from the United Kingdom whose professional work period began in 1742. He was born on December 26, 1716, and died on July 30, 1771. His literary output includes works such as *Elegia Grayiana Græce*, *The poems of Thomas Gray*, *Poetical miscellanies*, *The poetical works of Thomas Gray*, and *The nunnery*.
Various databases record different counts for his works, with Open Library listing 248, Crossref noting 5, and Europeana Sparql citing 11. His writings include lines such as "What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe." and "Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air."
In music contexts, Thomas Gray is associated with genres including alternative, alternative rock, british, contemporary folk, and folk. His name appears in 372 other encyclopedia articles, and he has 544 listeners with a playcount of 1326 on Last.fm.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1716
- Died
- 1771
- Works
- 248
Top works
- Elegia Grayiana Græce
- The poems of Thomas Gray
- Poetical miscellanies
- The poetical works of Thomas Gray
- The nunnery
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1968-06-13
Discography
- A Century Ends1993
- Flesh1994
- Sell, Sell, Sell1996
- White Ladder1998
- Lost Songs 95–982001
- A New Day at Midnight2002
- Life in Slow Motion2005
- Draw the Line2009
- Foundling2010
- Mutineers2014
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 544
- Total plays
- 1,326
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. Thomas Gray was born in Cornhill, London, the son of an exchange broker and a milliner. He was the fifth of 12 children and the only child in his family to survive infancy. He lived with his mother after she left his abusive father. He was educated at Eton College where his uncle was one of the masters. He recalled his schooldays as a time of great happiness <a href="https
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 163,298x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,252x
- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 59,975x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,115x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,354x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!”
- “What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.”
- “In glittering arms and glory dressed, High he rears his ruby crest. There the thundering strokes begin, There the press and there the din; Talymalfra's rocky shore Echoing to the battle's roar.”
- “Where his glowing eye−balls turn, Thousand banners round him burn. Where he points his purple spear, Hasty, hasty Rout is there, Marking with indignant eye Fear to stop and shame to fly. There Confusion, Terror's child, Conflict fierce and Ruin wild, Agony that pants for breath, Despair and honourable Death.”
- “Now my weary lips I close; Leave me, leave me to repose!”
- “Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Family name
- Gray
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- professor
- Educated at
- Eton College
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- PortraitThomasGrayByJohnGilesEccart1747to1748.jpg
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- Commons Creator page
- Thomas Gray
- topic's main category
- Category:Thomas Gray
- Commons category
- Thomas Gray
- date of birth
- 1716-00-00
- date of death
- 1771-00-00
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 1742-00-00
- ethnic group
- English people
- P8168
- Hohenfeld
- P12749
- Ryokuchi-kōen Station
- place of burial
- Buckinghamshire
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
11 objects attributed to Thomas Gray, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Poésies de Gray
The poetical works of (Oliver) Goldsmith and (Thomas) Gray : with a memoir of each : two volumes in one
English Elegia of Mr. Tommaso Gray above a country cemetery carried in Italian verse from a. M. C.-In Padua: at Giuseppe Comino, 1772.
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Encyclopedic overview
Plaque marking Thomas Gray's birthplace at 39 Cornhill, London
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. Gray was a self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being very popular. He was even offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1757 after the death of Colley Cibber, though he declined.
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