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Thomas Gray | | Birth Date: |
December 26, 1716 | | Death Date: |
July 30, 1771 | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet, author |
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 Biography of Thomas Gray
568 words, approx. 2 pages
 The English poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771) expressed deep and universal human feelings in forms derived from Greek and Roman literature. Although his output was small, he introduced new subject matter for poetry. Thomas Gray was born on Dec. 26, 1716, of... summary from source:
Biography of Thomas Gray
6,086 words, approx. 20 pages
 Thomas Gray is generally considered the second most important poet of the eighteenth century (following the dominant figure of Alexander Pope) and the most disappointing. It was generally assumed by friends and readers that he was the most talented... 
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 Thomas Gray Quotes
2,232 words, approx. 7 pages
Thomas Gray ( December 26 , 1716 – July 30 , 1771 ) was an English poet, classical scholar, and professor of history at Cambridge University. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1742) 1.2 Elegy Written in a Country...
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 Gray, Thomas
103 words, approx. 1 pages(born Dec. 26, 1716, London, Eng.—died July 30, 1771, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) British poet. He studied and later settled at Cambridge, where he wrote poems of wistful melancholy filled with truisms phrased in striking, quotable lines. Though... summary from source:
 Thomas Gray Information
1,542 words, approx. 5 pages
Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 – July 30, 1771), was an English poet, classical scholar and professor of Cambridge University. He was born in Cornhill, London, the son of an exchange broker and a milliner. He was the fifth of eight children and...
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 Criticism Gray, the marketplace, and the masculine poet. (Thomas Gray)
09/22/1993: 8,182 words, approx. 27 pages Thomas Gray opposed the practice of selling poetry through the book trade because he considered that it alienated poets from their intended audience. The publishing industry produced for the common people rather than the educated elite that had previously controlled access to poetry. However,... summary from source:
Yearbook of English Studies Thomas Gray: The Progress of a Poet.
01/01/2000: 536 words, approx. 2 pages Thomas Gray: The Progress of a Poet. By B. Eugene McCarthy. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 279 pp. [pound]34.50. Thomas Gray: The Progress of a Poet is the fifth book on Gray to come out...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Amy Louise Reed
18,045 words, approx. 60 pages
In the following essay, Reed argues that the birth of Graveyard poetry, such as Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard,” stemmed from a reaction to what some in the seventeenth century claimed was a disease, melancholy, and discusses the influences of the Graveyard poets.
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Critical Essay by Samuel Johnson
10,962 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, originally published in 1781, Johnson provides a brief overview of Gray's life and claims that there is more to be celebrated in the life that he lived than in the poetry he created, in which he finds very little originality.
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Critical Essay by Wallace Jackson
8,905 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Jackson provides a detailed examination of Gray's treatment of the themes of desire and authority in his poetry.
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