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Gray, Thomas. Gray, Thomas ( 1716–1771 ), poet and literary scholar, was born on 26 December 1716, the son of Philip Gray (1676–1741), scrivener, and Dorothy Antrobus (1685–1753), in his father's house in Cornhill (later numbered 41), close to the Royal Exchange in the City of London. Philip Gray, described in his obituary notice as ' an ...
Thomas Gray si laurea in seguito a Cambridge dove diviene professore di Storia Moderna nel 1768, dedicandosi agli studi e alla ricerca. Gray rascorse molte estati in Scozia e nella regione del Lake District , nel nord-ovest dell’Inghilterra, una zona che diverrà famosa soprattutto grazie a William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) e i “poeti laghisti”.
Thomas Gray. Thomas Gray (26 December 1716– 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. #EnglishWriters.
Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter writer, classical scholar, and professor at Cambridge University. He is considered a pivotal figure in the transition from Augustan poetry to Romantic poetry, a shift that emphasized personal experience, emotional expression, and the sublime power of nature.
17 de mai. de 2018 · Thomas Gray. 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 middle-class parents.
Whilst a student at Peterhouse, Cambridge, Gray corresponded with Walpole and West; the friends sent poems and wrote occasionally in French and Latin. During these early years at Cambridge, Gray became a close friend also of Thomas Wharton. Gray accompanied Walpole on the Grand Tour and the two travelled together between 1738 and 1741, only ...
A grey September evening in London – gloomy, close, and stale. As Gray sat in the window of Dick’s Coffee House and looked out upon the steady stream of carriages and foot passengers who were wearily making their way through Temple Bar from the City, he felt uncomfortably like a stranger in his own land.
