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Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , published in 1751.
First page of Dodsley's illustrated edition of Gray's Elegy with illustration by Richard Bentley. 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.
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" is an 18th-century ode by Thomas Gray. It is composed of ten 10-line stanzas, rhyming ABABCCDEED, with the B lines and final D line in iambic trimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter. In this poem, Gray coined the phrase "Ignorance is bliss". It occurs in the final stanza of the poem:
The pastoral elegy is a poem about both death and idyllic rural life. Often, the pastoral elegy features shepherds. The genre is actually a subgroup of pastoral poetry, as the elegy takes the pastoral elements and relates them to expressing grief at a loss. This form of poetry has several key features, including the invocation of the Muse ...
2 Elegy. 2 comments. 3 Collection of Works. 1 comment. 4 Elegy and Collection of Works. 1 comment. 5 Engraving Based on Gray's "Ode on a Spring" ... 10 Thomas Gray. 1 ...
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, published anonymously, a literary sensation published February 15 by Robert Dodsley in a quarto pamphlet with a preface by Horace Walpole (reprinted in Designes by Mr. R. Bentley 1753 and in Gray's Poems 1768); [1] an important work of the Graveyard poets movement
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (1455–1501), English nobleman and courtier, also Earl of Huntingdon; Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset (1477–1530), English magnate and courtier, son of the above; Thomas Grey (Staffordshire MP) (by 1508–1559), MP for Staffordshire in 1554; Thomas Grey (Norwich MP) (by 1519–58), MP for Norwich in 1557
Thomas Gray was a regular visitor to Stoke Poges, which was home to his mother and an aunt, [75] and the churchyard at St Giles is reputed to have been the inspiration for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, though this is not universally accepted. [76]