Thomas Gray Biography and Works | Summary of Ode On the Spring
Thomas Gray was an English poet who was born on 26 December 1716 and died on 30h July 1770. He was educated at Eton College. In 1734, He joined Peterhouse, Cambridge for higher education but chose to shift to Pembroke College in the same year. He spent most of his life as a scholar in Cambridge. In 1742, he began writing poems and publishing them. His first published work was An Ode on the Spring which was published in 1742. His other poem "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West" was also published in 1742 which he wrote after the death of his close friend Richard West.
Thomas Gray is majorly known for his famous poem ‘Elegy Written in Country Churchyard’ which was published in 1751. The contemplates such themes as death and the afterlife. These themes foreshadowed the upcoming Gothic movement. Because of this poem, he became known as one of the Graveyard Poets. The "Graveyard Poets", also termed "Churchyard Poets", was a number of pre-Romantic poets of the 18th century characterized by their gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs, and worms" elicited by the presence of the graveyard. Moving beyond the elegy lamenting a single death, their purpose was rarely sensationalist. The "graveyard poets" are often recognized as precursors of the Gothic literary genre, as well as the Romantic movement. The term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death", Robert Blair's The Grave, and Edward Young's “Night-Thoughts”.
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