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Gray, Thomas
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER
Gray, Thomas
(1716–71), educated at Eton, with Horace Walpole , and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He accompanied Walpole on a tour of France and Italy in 1739–41, but they quarrelled and returned home separately. In 1742 Gray moved to Cambridge, where he was to live, apart from travels and visits, for the rest of his life. In 1741–2 he began to write English rather than Latin poetry, producing a fragment of a Racinian tragedy, Agrippina , and his first odes, including Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1747), the first of his works to appear in print. In June ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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