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Thomas Gray (Londres, 26 de diciembre de 1716 – Cambridge, 30 de julio de 1771), fue un poeta inglés del prerromanticismo, erudito clásico y profesor de historia en la Universidad de Cambridge, uno de los poetas de cementerio.
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , published in 1751.
Thomas Gray was an English poet whose “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” is one of the best known of English lyric poems. Although his literary output was slight, he was the dominant poetic figure in the mid-18th century and a precursor of the Romantic movement.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Thomas Gray. (Londres, 1716 - Cambridge, Gran Bretaña, 1771) Poeta inglés. Estudió en Eton y Cambridge, donde entabló una duradera amistad con Horace Walpole, a quien acompañó en sus viajes a Italia y a Francia (1739). Pasó la mayor parte de su vida estudiando a los clásicos, arqueología y ciencias naturales.
Thomas Gray (Londres, 26 de diciembre de 1716 – Cambridge, 30 de julio de 1771), fue un poeta inglés del prerromanticismo, erudito clásico y profesor de historia en la Universidad de Cambridge, uno de los poetas de cementerio.
1716–1771. Thomas Gray by John Giles Eccardt © National Portrait Gallery, London. Alongside Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray is one of the most important English poets of the 18th century.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. [1] . The poem's origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742.
