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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.
Despite the disastrous consequences of her sister Katherine's secret marriage, Mary also married without the Queen's permission. [9] On 16 July 1565, [10] while the Queen was absent attending the marriage of her kinsman, Sir Henry Knollys [11] (d. 21 December 1582), and Margaret Cave, the daughter of Sir Ambrose Cave, [12] Mary secretly married the Queen's sergeant porter, Thomas Keyes, son of ...
"The Flowers o' the Forest" Oliver Goldsmith "Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" Thomas Gray "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" "The Bard" Robert Herrick "To Blossoms" "To Daffodils" Thomas Heywood "Morning" James Hogg "A Boy's Song" "The Skylark" Thomas Hood "A Lake and a Fairy Boat" "I Remember, I Remember" Ben Jonson "Hymn to Diana" John ...
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby, KG (1455 – 20 September 1501 [1] [2]) was an English nobleman, courtier and the eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville and her first husband Sir John Grey of Groby.
Gray's Elegy is an odd case of poetry with latent political ideas: Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
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Once while defending underprivileged youth in public schools, Johnson quoted from memory lines from "Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." He said that these forgotten students were like desert flowers:"Full many a flower has been born to bloom and blush unseen and waste the sweetness of its fragrance on the desert air." [8]