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Oldest. '''Thomas Gray''' (26 December 1716– 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. == Early life and education == Thomas Gray was born in Cornhill, London.
Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country-Churchyard" (1751) is one of the most widely and frequently translated/paraphrased/imitated poems in the English language. With to date at least 266 translations into at least 40 languages, the "Elegy" has inspired translators since the early 1760s when the earliest Latin translations appeared.
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 peer-reviewed digital archive and research project devoted to eighteenth-century poet, letter-writer, and scholar Thomas Gray (1716-1771), author of the acclaimed "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751). Founded in 2000, the Archive's mission is to facilitate collaboration and to support the study, research ...
Thomas Gray Poeta inglés "El talento puede pasar desapercibido para la gran mayoría de las personas y como consecuencia lógica, no ser empleado". Thomas Gray Nació el 26 de diciembre de 1716 en Londres. Cursó estudios en las universidades de Eton y Cambridge.
Thomas Gray, (born Dec. 26, 1716, London, Eng.—died July 30, 1771, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), British poet. He studied and later settled at Cambridge, where he wrote poems of wistful melancholy filled with truisms phrased in striking, quotable lines. Though his output was small, he became the dominant poetic figure in his day.
Thomas Gray fue un poeta inglés del siglo XVIII que escribió versos sobre las normas de navegación marítima. Los versos establecen reglas sencillas para que los barcos se crucen de manera segura basadas en el color de sus luces laterales. Si se ven dos luces del frente, cada barco debe virar a estribor. Si se ven luces iguales, pueden seguir su rumbo.
