(1716-1771) English poet. His ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ 1751 is one of the most quoted poems in English. Other poems include ‘Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College’, ‘The Progress of Poesy’, and ‘The Bard’; these poems are now seen as the precursors of Romanticism.
A close friend of Horace Walpole at Eton, Gray made a continental tour with him 1739–41, an account of which is given in his vivid letters. His first poem ‘Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College’ was published 1747 and again 1748 with ‘Ode on the Spring’ in Robert Dodsley’s (1703–1764) A Collection of Poems By Several Hands. + prikaži više