id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4466 Thomas Gray - Wikipedia .html text/html 3371 405 77 Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. It is believed by a number of writers that Gray began writing arguably his most celebrated piece, the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, in the graveyard of St Giles' parish church in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire (though this claim is not exclusive), in 1742. ^ "Thomas Gray | English poet". "Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Poems : Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West]". "Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Poems : Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes". "Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Poems : Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College". "Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Poems : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". Works by or about Thomas Gray at Internet Archive Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4466.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4466.txt