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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).
Thomas Gray wurde in London geboren und lebte bei seiner Mutter, nachdem diese ihren gewalttätigen Ehemann, einen Geschäftsmann, verlassen hatte. Gray wurde in Eton erzogen und immatrikulierte sich als Student am Peterhouse, Cambridge.
18 de nov. de 2021 · Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, classical scholar and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge, best known for his poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. While Gray is regarded as the foremost English-language poet of the mid-18th century, he was very self-critical and published only ...
The Exeter-born teacher of the harpsichord and singing master, Thomas Billington (1754-1832), composed this operatic setting of the ‘Elegy’, using music that he had composed as well as reworkings of the work of other composers. For most of his career, Billington taught and worked in London. Billington’s notation for Gray’s Elegy.
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).
Thomas Gray. / Londres, Inglaterra, 1716 – Cambridge, Inglaterra, 1771. Poeta prerromántico inglés, fue profesor de Historia en la Universidad de Cambridge, lugar donde falleció. De entre su breve obra poética destaca la “Elegía”, presuntamente escrita en un cementerio del condado de Buckinghamshire.
A grey September evening in London – gloomy, close, and stale. As Gray sat in the window of Dick’s Coffee House and looked out upon the steady stream of carriages and foot passengers who were wearily making their way through Temple Bar from the City, he felt uncomfortably like a stranger in his own land.
