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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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- 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
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Works in European collections
11 objects attributed to توماس گری, 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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