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Thomas Gray
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Thomas Gray was an English poet and classical scholar who lived from 1716 to 1771 and is remembered as one of the important literary figures of the eighteenth century. His most famous work, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," remains widely read today and helped establish him as a significant voice in English poetry during his lifetime.
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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
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- 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
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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
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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.”
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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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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.