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Alongside Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray is one of the most important English poets of the 18th century. Samuel Johnson was the first of many critics to put forward the view that Gray spoke in two languages, one public and the other private, and that the private language—that of his best-known and most-loved poem, "Elegy Written in a Country ...
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,
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 (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.
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 was an English poet, professor, and scholar. He is best known for his ‘ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,’ published in 1751. Thomas Gray’s ‘ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ‘ belongs to the genre of elegy. An elegy is a poem written to mourn a person’s death. Gray wrote this elegy in the year 1742.
Thomas Gray (born Dec. 26, 1716, London—died July 30, 1771, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) 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 ...
