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Thomas Gray, the Glossary

Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College.^[1]

85 relations: Antiquities, Antonio Vivaldi, Babylon, Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Botany, Buckinghamshire, Bull Durham, Cambridge, Christopher Smart, Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges, Classicism, Classics, Colley Cibber, Cornhill, London, Dictionary of National Biography, Domenico Scarlatti, Edmund Gosse, Edward I of England, Elegy, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Eton College, Europe, Far from the Madding Crowd, Fellow, Gothic fiction, Grand Tour, Graveyard poets, Great Britain in the Seven Years' War, Harpsichord, Hatmaking, Historian, Horace Walpole, House of Plantagenet, James Wolfe, John Bacon (sculptor, born 1740), John Giles Eccardt, John Penn (writer), Kirk Douglas, Lake Poets, Lawrence Brockett, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Lyrical Ballads, Mock-heroic, Nathaniel Lee, Oliver Goldsmith, Paths of Glory, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Picturesque, Pindar, ... Expand index (35 more) »
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Antiquities

Antiquities are objects from antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Persia (Iran), Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music.

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Babylon

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.

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Battle of the Plains of Abraham

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec (Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham, Première bataille de Québec), was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War to describe the North American theatre).

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Bull Durham

Bull Durham is a 1988 American romantic comedy sports film.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Christopher Smart

Christopher Smart (11 April 1722 – 20 May 1771) was an English poet. Thomas Gray and Christopher Smart are 1771 deaths and 18th-century English poets.

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Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges

St Giles' Church is an active parish church in the village of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Classicism

Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. Thomas Gray and Colley Cibber are 18th-century English male writers and 18th-century English poets.

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Cornhill, London

Cornhill (formerly also Cornhil) is a ward and street in the City of London, the historic nucleus and financial centre of modern London, England.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885.

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Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer.

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Edmund Gosse

Sir Edmund William Gosse (21 September 184916 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. Thomas Gray and Edmund Gosse are English literary critics.

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Edward I of England

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307.

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Elegy

An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead.

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751.

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Eton College

Eton College is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth published novel and his first major literary success.

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Fellow

A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.

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Grand Tour

The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old).

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Graveyard poets

The "Graveyard Poets", also termed "Churchyard Poets", were a number of pre-Romantic poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms" elicited by the presence of the graveyard.

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Great Britain in the Seven Years' War

Great Britain was one of the major participants in the Seven Years' War, which in fact lasted nine years, between 1754 and 1763.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.

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Hatmaking

Hat-making or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and other headwear.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.

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House of Plantagenet

The House of Plantagenet (/plænˈtædʒənət/ ''plan-TAJ-ə-nət'') was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou.

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James Wolfe

James Wolfe (2 January 1727 – 13 September 1759) was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec.

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John Bacon (sculptor, born 1740)

John Bacon (24 November 1740 – 7 August 1799) was a British sculptor who worked in the late 18th century.

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John Giles Eccardt

John Giles Eccardt (–) was a Holy Roman Empire-born British painter who specialised in portrait painting.

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John Penn (writer)

John Penn (22 February 1760 – 21 June 1834) was an English politician and writer who was the chief proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1775 to 1776.

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Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker.

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Lake Poets

The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England, United Kingdom, in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Lawrence Brockett

Lawrence Brockett (13 August 1724 – 12 July 1768) was an English academic. Thomas Gray and Lawrence Brockett are Regius Professors of History (Cambridge).

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Lord Chancellor of Ireland

The Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.

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Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.

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Mock-heroic

Mock-heroic, mock-epic or heroi-comic works are typically satires or parodies that mock common Classical stereotypes of heroes and heroic literature.

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Nathaniel Lee

Nathaniel Lee (c. 1653 – 6 May 1692) was an English dramatist.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer best known for his works such as The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), The Good-Natur'd Man (1768), The Deserted Village (1770) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771).

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Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb, which was based on the Souain corporals affair during World War I. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack, after which Dax attempts to defend them against charges of cowardice in a court-martial.

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Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse is the oldest constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.

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Picturesque

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.

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Pindar

Pindar (Πίνδαρος; Pindarus) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.

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Poet laureate

A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.

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Poets' Corner

Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated.

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R. W. Ketton-Cremer

Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, (2 May 1906 – 12 December 1969) was an English landowner, biographer and historian.

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Regius Professor

A Regius Professor is a university professor who has, or originally had, royal patronage or appointment.

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Regius Professor of History (Cambridge)

Regius Professorship of History is one of the senior chairs in history at the University of Cambridge. Thomas Gray and Regius Professor of History (Cambridge) are Regius Professors of History (Cambridge).

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Richard West (Lord Chancellor of Ireland)

Richard West (c. 1691 – 3 December 1726) was an English barrister, judge, playwright and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1726.

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Robert Dodsley

Robert Dodsley (13 February 1703 – 23 September 1764) was an English bookseller, publisher, poet, playwright, and miscellaneous writer.

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Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1721 to 1742.

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Romantic poetry

Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (– 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Thomas Gray and Samuel Johnson are 18th-century English male writers, 18th-century English poets and English literary critics.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. Thomas Gray and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are 18th-century English non-fiction writers, 18th-century English poets and English literary critics.

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Scrivener

A scrivener (or scribe) was a person who, before the advent of compulsory education, could read and write or who wrote letters as well as court and legal documents.

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Self-criticism

Self-criticism involves how an individual evaluates oneself.

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Shallet Turner

Shallet Turner FRS LL. D. (ca. 1692 – 13 November 1762) was a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Thomas Gray and Shallet Turner are Regius Professors of History (Cambridge).

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Sinecure

A sinecure (or; from the Latin sine, 'without', and cura, 'care') is an office, carrying a salary or otherwise generating income, that requires or involves little or no responsibility, labour, or active service.

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Sport

Sport is a form of physical activity or game.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer.

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Stoicism

Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

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Stoke Poges

Stoke Poges is a village and civil parish in south-east Buckinghamshire, England.

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Strawberry Hill House

Strawberry Hill House—often called simply Strawberry Hill—is a Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London, by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) from 1749 onward.

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The Bard (poem)

The Bard.

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The Rival Queens

The Rival Queens, or the Death Of Alexander the Great is a Restoration tragedy written by Nathaniel Lee.

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Thesis

A thesis (theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet.

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Tuscany

Italian: toscano | citizenship_it.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.

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William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

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William Cowper

William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter.

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William Mason (poet)

William Mason (12 February 1724 – 7 April 1797) was an English poet, divine, amateur draughtsman, author, editor and gardener. Thomas Gray and William Mason (poet) are 18th-century English male writers and 18th-century English poets.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Thomas Gray and William Wordsworth are 18th-century English male writers, 18th-century English poets and Sonneteers.

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1751 in poetry

— Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gray

Also known as Gray, Thomas, T. Gray, Thomas Gray (poet).

, Poet laureate, Poets' Corner, R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Regius Professor, Regius Professor of History (Cambridge), Richard West (Lord Chancellor of Ireland), Robert Dodsley, Robert Walpole, Romantic poetry, Romanticism, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Scrivener, Self-criticism, Shallet Turner, Sinecure, Sport, Stanley Kubrick, Stoicism, Stoke Poges, Strawberry Hill House, The Bard (poem), The Rival Queens, Thesis, Thomas Hardy, Tuscany, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, W. W. Norton & Company, Westminster Abbey, William Blake, William Cowper, William Mason (poet), William Wordsworth, 1751 in poetry.

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Burials in Buckinghamshire

Regius Professors of History (Cambridge)

References