Thomas Gray Biography

Born on December 26 in London, in the family of a notary and a stock broker. In Gray, his mother was sent to the Iton College. He was accepted at Cambridge University. He went on a big trip to Europe with H. By the end of the trip, friends quarreled, and returned to Gray to England. For some time he lived with his mother and two of her sisters in the Stoke-Superior County Bekingmshire.

Here he wrote his first significant poems - an ode to the form of a college at the result of Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, the hymn of the Hymn to Adversity hardships, the Ode Ode to Spring, here he could start his greatest creation - an elegy written in the rural The Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard cemetery. Even before leaving abroad, he joined the Law Corporation Midl Temple, but the lawyer practice in London did not attract him.

A calm life at the college more inclined his inclinations, and Cambridge became his home until the end of his days.

The university as a field of activity meant very little for Gray, and for many years he did without any academic status; He was already satisfied with the fact that he had leisure and no one interfered with his recluse. The manuscript of Elegy Walpol, with whom he made it reconciled, sent to Gray. The poem was published in and immediately won a wide reader: five publications were published, in the next 20 years - eight more.

This is a detailed, in 32 songs a reflection on the human fate. The first was published in the first to depict a solemn advancement of poetry from Greece to Italy, from Italy to England - to Shakespeare, Milton, Drasiden and Gray himself; The second ode is the fruit of the study of ancient Welsh poetry. In the end, after the death of K. Sibber, Gray was proposed the title of the poet-laureate, but he refused; He took the position of professor of new history of Cambridge University.

His interest in medieval literature is evidenced by translations from ancient Iceland and Welsh poetry, in particular, the descending of Odin The Descent of Odin and the triumph of Owen The Triumphs Owen. Gray remained a bachelor all his life, and among his close friends there was only one woman, Henrietta Jane Ass, whom he always visited when he came to London. He met with a young Swiss Sh.

in England. The acquaintance turned into confidential friendship, and the talented young man, before returning to Switzerland, lodged for three months in Cambridge. Upon returning from London, Gray fell ill and suddenly died in his university apartment on July 30, Gray is the most educated from the English poets after Milton, his style is academic, traditionalism and thoroughly finishing.

The hobby for the Middle Ages and the subtle perception of the landscapes of the Alps and the Lake Territory allow us to see in it the forerunner of romantic poets of the 19th century. Gray is remembered as one of the best masters of the epistolary genre in England. More than his letters have been preserved, capturing a picture of life in Cambridge in the 18th century.

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