Hymn to adversity by thomas gray
The progress of poesy by thomas gray!
Born in 1716 in London, Thomas Gray was a poet and professor who is perhaps most well-known for the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard that was inspired by the sudden passing of his poet friend Richard West.
Gray was from a large family of 12 but was the only one to survive, his father suffered from mental illness, and he spent most of his youth with his mother.
Gray attended Eton, was a devout scholar who wasn’t interested in sport but found a deep joy in studying science and botany in particular.
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1734 saw him in Cambridge, although he didn’t much care for the studies, preferring to spend his time reading and playing music. It was there that he made friends with Horace Walpole who would later help him get published.
After the death of his friend and poet Richard West, Gray began to write poetry in earnest, and he would spend a good deal of the rest of his life living the life of a scholar at Cambridge, his head buried in a book.
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