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Holograph manuscript of Gray's "Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard". The poem most likely originated in the poetry that Gray composed in 1742. William Mason, in Memoirs, discussed his friend Gray and the origins of Elegy: "I am inclined to believe that the Elegy in a Country Church-yard was begun, if not concluded, at this time [August 1742] also: Though I am aware that as it stands at ...
Plaque marking Thomas Gray's birthplace at 39 Cornhill, London. 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.
At its narrowest, the term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death", Robert Blair's The Grave and Edward Young's Night-Thoughts. At its broadest, it can describe a host of poetry and prose works popular in the early and mid-eighteenth century.
Thomas Grey was born on 16 September 1863 at Shoreswood, Norham, in Northumberland.He worked on trains for much of his life for the North Eastern Railway. [1] [2] [3] On 3 July 1887 he married Esther Glenwright at South Shields and they resided in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
"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:
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Gray's lyrics are based on an earlier folk tale. Poet Sam Walter Foss had published his own version of the story in 1889 in the Yankee Blade, a magazine he edited. The Foss poem was reprinted in a number of newspapers and in his book Back Country Poems, which was published in 1892. [2] Gray wrote the lyrics in 1892.
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