“the style he aimed at was extreme conciseness of expression, yet pure, perspicuous, and musical.”
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Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray was a self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being very popular. He was even offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1…
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culture · English poet and classical scholar (1716–1771) · poet · literary critic · writer · historian · also Thomas Gray, Gray
Born 26 December 1716 · Died 30 July 1771 · Q315516
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2026· 6 entries
“the language of the age is never the language of poetry.”
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Medical Xpress: Gray and white matter jointly shape cognitive aging, new evidence shows
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1771· 2 entries
Died 1771-07-30.
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“Original: «Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strifeTheir sober wishes never learn'd to stray;Along the cool sequester'd vale of lifeThey kept the noiseless tenor of their way.”
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1768· 1 entry
Career landmark: Regius Professor of History, Cambridge University (1768–1771).
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1716· 1 entry
Born 1716-12-26.
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