[DOC] [TLE] Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Poems : "Ode on a Distant Prospect of ... [PAR] 1753: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London ... 1799: 
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, LL.B. London .... 100 'Tis folly to be wise. [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Gray - Wikipedia [PAR] Thomas Gray (26 December 1716  30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-
writer, classical .... He is well known for his phrase, "where ignorance is bliss, 'tis 
folly to be wise." The phrase, from Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College,... [DOC] [TLE] David Lehman on why Thomas Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of ... [PAR] Jan 22, 2013 ... Portrait of the poet Thomas Gray. Portrait of Thomas Gray ... Gray's ode ends, 
Where ignorance is bliss,/ Tis folly to be wise, an assertion that... [DOC] [TLE] The Reflection of Eighteenth Century Thought in the Works - Loyola ... [PAR] LITERARY TRENDS AS REFLECTED IN THOMAS GRAY 1 S POETRY. 
Introduction -- Biographical ...... reflection, "Where ignorance is bliss, 1 tis folly to 
be wise." Contemplating .... the decades that preceded the rl.se of Wordsworth. 
Since the... [DOC] [TLE] The Project Gutenberg e-Book of Select Poems of Thomas Gray, by ... [PAR] It is a curious fact that the most accurate edition of Gray's collected poems is the 
editio .... Thomas Gray, the author of the celebrated Elegy written in a Country 
Churchyard, was ...... 'Tis folly to be wise. 5 ...... For the derivation of this word 
from the French tabis, a kind of silk, see Wb. In the first ed. the 5th line preceded 
the 4th. [DOC] [TLE] Statement and Artiface in Thomas Gray.pdf - St Paul's School Intranet [PAR] haps, the first poet in the English language, but to have writ- ten a little more," has 
... 2Gray to Mason, 9 November 1758, Correspondence of Thomas Gray, ed. ... 
panorama which preceded it. ..... "where ignorance is bliss, / 'Tis folly to be wise. [DOC] [TLE] Biography: Edward S. Creasy on Thomas Gray - English Poetry ... [PAR] Edward S. Creasy, "Thomas Gray" Memoirs of Eminent Etonians (1850) .... 
Fortunately for the lovers of Gray's poetry, his mother passed her latter years in 
the .... 'Tis folly to be wise. .... I do not quite concur in the criticisms which are 
expressed in it, and in the stanza which precedes it; but I was unwilling to mar by 
dissevering... [DOC] [TLE] English 2430: Readings - University of Wyoming [PAR] Sep 1, 2016 ... Thomas Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" (1747) ... Emily 
Dickinson, Selected Poems (1860-1868) ...... 'Tis folly to be wise. ..... 116] In some 
of the first editions of the poem, the following stanza preceded the... [DOC] [TLE] The Philosophy of Poetry | Issue 114 | Philosophy Now [PAR] Roger Caldwell finds philosophy & poetry to be mutually alien. ... One thinks of 
Thomas Gray observing Eton schoolboys at play: Where ignorance is bliss / 'Tis 
folly to be wise. Even Keats, whose language is typically ... Surely a nave 
reading necessarily precedes a supposedly sophisticated one? There is a 
tendency... [DOC] [TLE] Reasonable Doubt | Reflecting on Judaism [PAR] This is a quotation from an English poet named Thomas Gray. Born December 26 
1716 and died 30 ... No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.". [DOC] [TLE] Wisdom | Anne Mendoza Titong - Academia.edu [PAR] ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Poems and Paragraphs Justice without wisdom 
is ... or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded
. ... WILLIAM BLAKE, Proverbs of Hell Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be 
wise. THOMAS GRAY, Odes on a Distant Prospect of Eton College The sun of the
... [DOC] [TLE] Encyclopedia Barfieldiana: Barfield Scholarship [PAR] [xv] But Barfield goes Emerson one better: his thought not only precedes but ...

Question: In a Thomas Gray poem this precedes " 'Tis folly to be wise"
Answer: Where Ignorance Is Bliss