Thomas Gray

Learn about Thomas Gray, an English writer of the 18th century

1. Thomas gray

2. Early Life
Education
Boyfriends
Career
Death
Works

3. Early Life
-Thomas Gray was born
on December 26, 1716

-born in:
CORNHILL, LONDON

-5
TH
OF THE 12
CHILDREN, BUT THE
ONLY CHILD TO SURVIVE
INFANCY

4. Early Life
-Parents were:
-Philip
-Dorothy

5. Education
Eton
College

Tutors/Uncles:
-Robert
Antrobus
-William
Antrobus

6. Education
He made friends
with:

QUADRAPLE
ALLIANCE
-Horace
Walpole
-Thomas Ashton
-Richard West

7. Education
College:

Peterhouse
College,
Cambridge
University

8. Boyfriends
Charles Victor de Bonstetten

9. Boyfriends
Charles Victor de Bonstetten
Hottie reasons:

CHARMING
HIGH-
SPIRITED

10. Boyfriends


Norton
Nicholls

11. Career
As a
Writer

12. Career as a writer:

13. Career as a writer:
• Gray began seriously writing poems in 1742.

14. Career as a writer:
• Gray began seriously writing poems in 1742.
• It is believed that Gray began writing his masterpiece, the
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, in the graveyard of St
Giles parish church in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, in 1742.

15. Career as a writer:
• Gray began seriously writing poems in 1742.
• It is believed that Gray began writing his masterpiece, the
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, in the graveyard of St
Giles parish church in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, in 1742.
• Thomas Gray, known for his "Elegy in a Country Churchyard,"
wrote only one sonnet

16. Honors:

17. Honors:
• John Penn "of Stoke" had a memorial to Gray installed in
the churchyard and engraved with the "Elegy".

18. Honors:
• John Penn "of Stoke" had a memorial to Gray installed in
the churchyard and engraved with the "Elegy".

• A plaque in Cornhill marks his birthplace.

19. Honors:
• John Penn "of Stoke" had a memorial to Gray installed in
the churchyard and engraved with the "Elegy".

• A plaque in Cornhill marks his birthplace.

• Gray's biographer William Mason erected a monument to
him, designed by John Bacon the Elder, in Poets' Corner
at Westminster Abbey in 1778.

20. Death of
Thomas Gray

21. Death:

22. Death:  Thomas Gray Died July 30, 1771, Cambridge

23. Death:  Thomas Gray Died July 30, 1771, Cambridge
 English poet whose “An Elegy Written in a
Country Church Yard” is one of the best
known of English lyric poems. Although his
literary output was slight, he was the
dominant poetic figure in the mid-18th
century and a precursor of the Romantic
movement.

24. Works
Elegy
Written in a
Country
Churchyard
Ode on a
Distant
Prospect of
Eton
College
Ode on the
Death of a
Favourite Cat,
Drowned in a
Tub of
Goldfish
The
Bard
The
Progress
of Poesy

25. “The paths of glory lead
but to the grave.”

“Full many a gem of
purest ray serene
The dark unfathom’d
caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is
born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness
on the desert air.”

26. “Ignorance is a
bliss, ‘tis folly to
be wise.”

27. “Not all that tempts
your wand’ring eyes
And heedless hearts ,
is lawful prize;
Nor all that glisters,
gold.”

29. “(Poetry) Thoughts,
that breathe, and
words, that burn.”

30. Sources: http://www.nndb.com/people/410/000087149/
http://www.thomasgray.org/resources/bio.shtml
http://www.circa-
club.com/gallery/gay_history_icons_thomas_
gray.php
http://www.poemhunter.com/thomas-
gray/quotations