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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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- 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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- 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
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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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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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