Thomas Gray (1) (1716–1771)
Auteur van Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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Author of An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1747), Thomas Gray was born in London in 1716. He was educated at Eton, the inspiration for his An Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1747), and Cambridge. Except for a tour of the Continent, taken in part with friend Horace Walpole, he toon meer spent most of his life in Cambridge, where he became professor of history and modern languages in 1768. He died in 1768 and is buried at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, the home of his mother and the inspiration for his famous elegy. (Bowker Author Biography) Author of An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1747), Thomas Gray was born in London in 1716. He was educated at Cambridge and Eton, the inspiration for his An Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1747). Except for a tour of the Continent, taken in part with friend Horace Walpole, he spent most of his life in Cambridge, where he became a professor of history and modern languages in 1768. Gray was an extremely shy, almost reclusive person. His nature was scholarly, and he sought perfection in everything he did. He did not write much poetry, but what he did finish is of such high quality that he is sometimes considered the most important figure in English poetry between Pope and Blake. His Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) has long been one of the supremely popular poems in the English language, rivaling any poem ever written for quotable lines. Gray's language is extremely formal, often archaic. Much influenced by the Greek and Roman poets, as well as Dryden, Gray later turned to Norse mythology for thematic material. The Progress of Poesy (1757) and The Bard (1757) contributed to the revival of the ode form, especially among the romantics. His letters have long been admired as among the best in the English language. Wordsworth regarded his Hymn to Adversity (1742) as a masterpiece. He died in 1768 and is buried at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, the home of his mother and the inspiration for his famous elegy. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Selected Poems of Thomas Gray, Charles Churchill and William Cowper (Penguin Classics) (1998) 18 exemplaren
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Elegy written in a country church-yard,: And other poems, (The Riverside literature series. [no. 74]) (1895) 3 exemplaren
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The Complete Poems of Thomas Gray: English, Latin… door Thomas Gray
folks, he wrote more than "Country Churchyard." give this special mind the time of day.
Reprint of what may once have been one of the most familiar poems in English from the 18th century. At a time when few could read in England, one of its most educated sons, and the companion of Horace Walpole during their youthful extended two and a half year "tour" of the Continent, Thomas Gray wrote a poem about seeing the headstone of a ploughman in an unfamiliar churchyard.
The poem is a meditation on human life, with its inevitable termination. Death is the leveler; it draws no distinctions, and indeed it absolutely removes all of them. In this reflection on stone, Gray's eyes settle on the Elegy of a humble rustic and how he wished to be remembered. The stone records, "He gave to misery all he had, a tear, / He gained from Heaven, 'twas all he wished, a friend."
So, we share a poem by one of the most educated men of 18th century Europe, gently igniting reflection about destiny and death, putting the play of assonance and alliteration to majestic use. The poem radically spreads actual majesty and grace to the lowly folk who never achieve fame and fortune. The poem gives full expression to humanitarian reality.
This throws posturing and the imbecility of empty pomp and pointless pretensions to power into stark relief. His treatment of the commoner was heroic and prescient -- twenty years after Gray's death in 1771, the French Revolution created the most robust middle class in the world with the freeing of the Serfs and land distribution. France became the most educated and most prosperous nation in the world. Sadly, recidivist tyrants subsidized a political takeover of the republic of France by a militarist "populist" thug. Napoleon was an out-of-control puppet who got millions of people killed.
But there was that ignition of consciousness. We owe much to Gray, his "friends", and his scholarship--the yearning for learning. And we are much cautioned by the vicious greed of a few wealthy puppet-masters who fancy they can control an armed puppet.… (meer)
The poem is a meditation on human life, with its inevitable termination. Death is the leveler; it draws no distinctions, and indeed it absolutely removes all of them. In this reflection on stone, Gray's eyes settle on the Elegy of a humble rustic and how he wished to be remembered. The stone records, "He gave to misery all he had, a tear, / He gained from Heaven, 'twas all he wished, a friend."
So, we share a poem by one of the most educated men of 18th century Europe, gently igniting reflection about destiny and death, putting the play of assonance and alliteration to majestic use. The poem radically spreads actual majesty and grace to the lowly folk who never achieve fame and fortune. The poem gives full expression to humanitarian reality.
This throws posturing and the imbecility of empty pomp and pointless pretensions to power into stark relief. His treatment of the commoner was heroic and prescient -- twenty years after Gray's death in 1771, the French Revolution created the most robust middle class in the world with the freeing of the Serfs and land distribution. France became the most educated and most prosperous nation in the world. Sadly, recidivist tyrants subsidized a political takeover of the republic of France by a militarist "populist" thug. Napoleon was an out-of-control puppet who got millions of people killed.
But there was that ignition of consciousness. We owe much to Gray, his "friends", and his scholarship--the yearning for learning. And we are much cautioned by the vicious greed of a few wealthy puppet-masters who fancy they can control an armed puppet.… (meer)
I far preferred Gray's work to that of Collins. The latter's Eclogues were fine, but much of the rest of his poetry left me cold. I think it may be that he made many references to issues and people topical for him, of which I have neither knowledge nor interest. Gray, however, deals with more universal, timeless themes, which remain relevant despite the stretch of time since he wrote. I suppose it is no accident that Gray is the more remembered.
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