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Book Thomas Gray

Download or read book Thomas Gray written by Robert L. Mack and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mack incorporates recent scholarship on Gray, drawing on developments in 18th-century and gender studies, as well as on extensive archival research into the life of the poet and his family. The result is an eloquent and enlightening book, sure to be the definitive biography of this great poet, a forefather of the Romantic Movement. 50 illustrations.

Book The Works of Thomas Gray  Poems  Memoirs  including letters  Two translations of Gray s Elegy  the Latin by Messrs  Anstey and Roberts

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Gray Poems Memoirs including letters Two translations of Gray s Elegy the Latin by Messrs Anstey and Roberts written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetry of Thomas Gray

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  • Author : Thomas Gray, Sir
  • Publisher : Portable Poetry
  • Release : 2014-11-21
  • ISBN : 9781785430213
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book The Poetry of Thomas Gray written by Thomas Gray, Sir and published by Portable Poetry. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Gray was born on 26 December 1716 in Cornhill in London. His father was a scrivener and his mother a milliner. He was the fifth of twelve children and the only one to survive. With his father becoming mentally unwell and abusing his wife she left with Thomas in tow for a safer life. Thomas was sent to Eton, where two of his uncles worked, and although he was a delicate and scholarly child with an aversion to sports he found it suited him. Whilst there he made three close friends; Horace Walpole, son of the Prime Minister Robert Walpole; Thomas Ashton, and Richard West. The four prided themselves on their style, humour, and appreciation of beauty. They were called the "quadruple alliance." In 1734 Gray went up to Peterhouse, Cambridge. Although his family wished him to study law he spent most of his time reading classical and modern literature, and playing Vivaldi and Scarlatti on the harpsichord for relaxation. In 1738 he accompanied his old school-friend Walpole on his Grand Tour of Europe. It was Walpole who later helped publish Gray's poetry. Gray began to seriously write poems in 1742, mainly after his close friend Richard West died. He moved to Cambridge and began a programme of literary study. Gray was a brilliant bookworm, a quiet, abstracted, dreaming scholar. He became a Fellow first of Peterhouse, and later of Pembroke College where he had moved after the students at Peterhouse played a prank on him. It is thought that Gray began writing his masterpiece, the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, in the graveyard of St Giles parish church in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, in 1742. After several years of leaving it unfinished, he completed it in 1750. When Gray sent it to Walpole, Walpole sent off the poem as a manuscript and it appeared in many magazines. Gray then published the poem himself and received the credit he was due. The poem was a literary sensation. Its reflective, calm and stoic tone was greatly admired, and despite the piracy it was imitated, quoted and translated into Latin and Greek. Gray spent most of his life as a scholar in Cambridge, and only travelled again later in life. Although he wrote little he is regarded by some as the foremost English-language poet of the mid-18th century. In 1757, he was offered the post of Poet Laureate, which he refused. Gray was extremely self-critical and feared failure. He once wrote that he feared his collected works would be "mistaken for the works of a flea." Gray came to be known as one of the "Graveyard poets" of the late 18th century, along with Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, and Christopher Smart. Gray perhaps knew these men, sharing ideas about death, mortality, and the finality of death. In 1768, after the death of Lawrence Brockett the Regius chair of Modern History at Cambridge, a sinecure which carried a salary of 400, fell vacant and Gray secured the position. Thomas Gray died on 30 July 1771 in Cambridge, and was buried beside his mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, the setting for his famous Elegy.

Book Elegy in a Country Churchyard

Download or read book Elegy in a Country Churchyard written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Gray

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  • Author : Thomas Gray
  • Publisher : Folcroft Library Editions
  • Release : 1884
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Gray written by Thomas Gray and published by Folcroft Library Editions. This book was released on 1884 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Gray  Poems  journals  and essays

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Gray Poems journals and essays written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Gray

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Gray written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Gray

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Gray written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Gray

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Gray written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Gray

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Gray written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... an attractive set of Gray's collected works, containing a memoir of the poet by Reverend J. Mitford, extensive commentaries on the verse, and a wide selection of the author's letters. Each volume with the bokplate of Dame Jane Strachey"--Bookseller's announcement.

Book The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The works of Thomas Gray  with memoirs of his life and writings  by W  Mason

Download or read book The works of Thomas Gray with memoirs of his life and writings by W Mason written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Gray  Esq

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Gray Esq written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Thomas Gray  Volume 1

Download or read book The Works of Thomas Gray Volume 1 written by John Mitford and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the collected works of Thomas Gray, one of the most respected poets of the 18th century. The book includes his famous "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," as well as translations from ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Gray's elegant language and themes of nature, morality, and love continue to inspire readers today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray  English and Latin

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray English and Latin written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The works of Thomas Gray  in prose and verse  ed  by E  Gosse

Download or read book The works of Thomas Gray in prose and verse ed by E Gosse written by Thomas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ode on the Spring

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  • Author : Thomas Gray
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Ode on the Spring written by Thomas Gray and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1921 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: