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The Poetry of Thomas Gray

by Thomas Gray

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Thomas Gray published very little in his lifetime, yet a handful of his poems became fixtures of English verse. This collection brings his work together, anchored by the 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,' whose quiet reflection on ordinary lives and unmarked graves is among the most quoted poems in the language. Alongside it stand the 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College,' the Pindaric odes 'The Progress of Poesy' and 'The Bard,' and lighter pieces such as the ode on a drowned cat. Gray's careful craftsmanship and melancholy tone helped bridge the formal poetry of the eighteenth century and the feeling that would define Romanticism.

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Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray (1716-1771) was an English poet and scholar who spent much of his life at Cambridge. Reserved and exacting, he published only a few poems, but his 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' secured him lasting fame as one of the most admired poets of his century.

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