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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.
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]
The Hours is a stipple engraving by a master of the technique, Francesco Bartolozzi (1725–1815), published on April 4, 1788, from the print shop of Thomas Macklin, at No. 39 Fleet Street, London. The print is based upon a painting by Maria Cosway (1760–1838).
Each full moon has its own name: May's flower moon will rise soon. Learn about the naming tradition, full moon dates and more.
What Poe employs in the second foot of the second line is simply "elision"--a very well established practice by that time in poetry written in English. "Many a" is scanned as two syllables: "man/ya." Similarly, Gray in his "Elegy" writes: "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"--a line of perfectly regular iambic pentameter.
As spring comes to an end, its final full moon, the Flower Moon, will appear overhead this month. Its name, while feminine and ever-so enchanting, pays tribute to the abundance of pretty, new ...
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.