Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.
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Thomas Gray (disambiguation)
... Thomas Gray was an English poet, classical scholar and professor of Cambridge University ... Thomas Gray may also refer to Thomas Grey, chronicler, whose surname is often spelled 'Gray' Thomas Gray (MP) (c ... British Member of Parliament for Northumberland Thomas Cecil Gray (1913–2008), English anaesthesiologist Thomas Gray (1788–1848), British ...
... Thomas Gray was an English poet, classical scholar and professor of Cambridge University ... Thomas Gray may also refer to Thomas Grey, chronicler, whose surname is often spelled 'Gray' Thomas Gray (MP) (c ... British Member of Parliament for Northumberland Thomas Cecil Gray (1913–2008), English anaesthesiologist Thomas Gray (1788–1848), British ...
Thomas Gray - Honors
... John Penn "of Stoke" had a memorial to Gray installed in the churchyard and engraved with the "Elegy" ... Gray's biographer William Mason erected a monument to him, designed by John Bacon the Elder, in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey in 1778 ...
... John Penn "of Stoke" had a memorial to Gray installed in the churchyard and engraved with the "Elegy" ... Gray's biographer William Mason erected a monument to him, designed by John Bacon the Elder, in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey in 1778 ...
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“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.”
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The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
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