Thomas Gray

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classicist human letter writer poet scholar

Thomas Gray was an 18th-century English poet and scholar best known for his meditative poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."

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Label	Occurrences
Thomas Gray canonical	22

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	classicist ⓘ human ⓘ letter writer ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ
burialPlace	St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England ⓘ
causeOfDeath	gout ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1716-12-26 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1771-07-30 ⓘ
educatedAt	Eton College ⓘ Peterhouse, Cambridge ⓘ
employer	Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
ethnicGroup	English ⓘ
familyName	Black ⓘ surface form: Gray
fieldOfWork	English literature ⓘ classical scholarship ⓘ
genre	ode ⓘ poetry ⓘ
givenName	Thomas ⓘ
hasLiteraryForm	meditative poem ⓘ
influenced	English Romantic poets ⓘ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ⓘ William Wordsworth ⓘ
influencedBy	Alexander Pope ⓘ John Milton ⓘ classical Latin literature ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
movement	Graveyard poets ⓘ Pre-Romanticism ⓘ
name	Thomas Gray self-link ⓘ
notableWork	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 Gold Fishes ⓘ William Shakespeare ⓘ surface form: The Bard The Progress of Poesy ⓘ
notedFor	Elegiac and reflective poetry ⓘ
occupation	letter writer ⓘ poet ⓘ professor ⓘ scholar ⓘ
periodOfActivity	18th century ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Cornhill, London, England ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Cambridge, England ⓘ
positionHeld	Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge ⓘ
religion	Church of England ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workLocation	Cambridge, England ⓘ

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Horace Walpole → correspondedWith → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Thomas Gray → name → Thomas Gray self-link ⓘ

Peterhouse, Cambridge → hasNotableAlumnus → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Pembroke College, Cambridge → notableAlumnus → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Poets’ Corner → notableMemorial → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard → author → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College → author → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes → author → Thomas Gray ⓘ

The Progress of Poesy → author → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Graveyard poets → associatedWith → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge → hasNotableHolder → Thomas Gray ⓘ

St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England → burialPlaceOf → Thomas Gray ⓘ

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St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England → hasMemorialTo → Thomas Gray ⓘ

subject surface form: St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges

St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England → hasGraveOf → Thomas Gray ⓘ

subject surface form: St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges

St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England → notableBurial → Thomas Gray ⓘ

subject surface form: St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges

Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England → associatedPerson → Thomas Gray ⓘ

subject surface form: Stoke Poges churchyard

Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England → author → Thomas Gray ⓘ

subject surface form: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Strawberry Hill circle → hasMember → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Gray → hasNotableBearer → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Robert Dodsley → supportedAuthor → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Robert Dodsley → publisherOf → Thomas Gray ⓘ

Edward Young → influenced → Thomas Gray ⓘ