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All of Gray's poems are poems of progress, journeys in which the challenge lies in discovering something other than the circularity of ends that are constituted of beginnings ("And they that creep, and they that fly, / Shall end where they began").
Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter writer, classical scholar, and professor at Cambridge University. He is considered a pivotal figure in the transition from Augustan poetry to Romantic poetry , a shift that emphasized personal experience, emotional expression, and the sublime power of nature.
A Fragment (also on ECPA) 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).
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. By Thomas Gray. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
See About for further information. 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).
Texts. The Texts section holds primary sources relevant to the study of the life and works of Thomas Gray. It provides electronic editions of Gray's complete poetry, including extensive collaborative commentary. It also contains selected prose works as well as a browsable calendar to the known correspondence of Gray.
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.
