Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray was born on December 26, 1716, in Cornhill, London. He was a British poet and scholar. His father was a Quaker merchant who died when Thomas was young. Gray attended Eton College and later went to Cambridge University, where he studied classics and philosophy.

33 works on Textopian

Works by Thomas Gray

• Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1747)
• Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat (1753)
• Ode on the Spring (1757)
• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)
• A Long Story (1753)
• Hymn to Adversity (1757)
• The Bard (1757)
• The Progress of Poesy (1757)
• The Descent of Odin (1768)
• The Fatal Sisters (1764)
• Ode for Music (1769)
• Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke (1753)
• Epitaph on Sir William Williams (1756)
• Hymn to Ignorance (1757)
• Lines Written at Burnham (1753)
• Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (1757)
• Gray on Himself (1775)
• Sonnet on the Death of Richard West (1756)
• Stanzas to Mr. Bentley (1757)
• The Candidate (1972)
• Impromptu (1753)
• Tophet (1747)
• Epitaph on Mrs. Mason (1753)
• Amatory Lines (1753)
• Comic Lines (1753)
• Verses from Shakespeare (1753)
• Epitaph on a Child (1751)
• Satire on the Heads of Houses (1753)
• Impromptus (1753)
• Lines on Dr. Robert Smith (1777)
• Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern (1768)
• Agrippina (1763)
• The Alliance of Education and Government (2015)