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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 . Considerado uno de los hombres más eruditos de su época. Su poesía no es muy abundante, pero sí ...
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- 30 de julio de 1771, Cambridge (Reino de Gran Bretaña)
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.
- 26 December 1716, Cornhill, London, England
- Poet, historian
- 30 July 1771 (aged 54), Cambridge, England
11 de mar. de 2024 · 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 ...
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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.
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…
Gray es considerado parte de un grupo de poetas de finales del siglo XVIII conocidos como la escuela del cementerio, poetas que escribieron poesía melancólica y meditativa sobre la muerte. Como parte de la escuela de cementerio, Gray escribe un lamento melancólico para la gente común que yace enterrada en este pequeño y oscuro lugar.
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).
