Talk:Thomas Gray

message: 64.250.194.65 introduced quite confusing Clinton Hamner name and date of birth as 1991 ... can we get revert?
I pondered the words "is considered as the representative poem of its age" and could not work out what they would mean...
*poem best representing life in the 18th century?
*poem best representing poetry of the 18th century?
*most important 18th century poem in the representative style?
As best is a POV term anyway, and the passive verb gives no attribution for the opinion, I decided to remove this language. Anybody want to rephrase more clearly? EdH 18:26, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Fishy edit

message: Should we go into any more detail on the Elegy...or maybe offer it its own article?  I'm inclined to think that at least some mention of notable phrases from the poem would be wise--"mute inglorious Milton", at least, is common enough that a search for that phrase on Google (with "-elegy" to remove most discussions of the phrase in its poetic context) provides several thousand hits.  I'm not well up on Gray's writing, and I haven't read the poem in years, but if others think it would be a worthwhile addition I would pull something together. Jwrosenzweig 23:15, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Elegy

message: Should we have a collection of works, or at least a list of his more popular works?
RWBronco 14:03, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collection of Works 

message: I vote for a separate article on the Elegy (with some details about it in this article) and the inclusion of a listing of Gray's works in this article.  I also think it needs to be organized with headlines such as Personal Life, Academic Career, The Letters (describing the importance of Gray's letters to the history of the period), The Elegy, Other Major Works, etc.  Aside from making the article more accessible, organizing it thus would encourage contributions to flesh it out more. McCune (talk) 21:01, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elegy and Collection of Works 

message: If anyone would be interested, I just finished putting together a page on "The Hours", an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi, after a work by Maria Cosway which was based on Thomas Gray's "Ode on a Spring".
I did not add this to the Thomas Gray page because I didn't see a clear place to put it, and therefore wasn't very comfortable editing your work.
By the way, could I suggest that you give the last section a title other than "Death"? I read that and burst out laughing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrs rockefeller (talk • contribs) 20:42, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Engraving Based on Gray's "Ode on a Spring" 

message: I am a new editor and not a Gray expert, but I found some very unprofessional wording in this section.  I removed the worst of it (a reference to Gray's uncle as "drugged up" and the last sentence ending with "and yeah" for example), but someone knowledgeable about Gray's life needs to fact-check this section to make it a more reliable reference.
Gwenhyfara (talk) 16:06, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Life section in need of expert attention 

message: I have deleted some bogus info on this non-existent or "virtual" entity. According to my research "The Churchyard Poets" are only known through internet mirrors of a defunct, bogus, wikipedia entry, and seem to have no other existence than this...There WAS a group called the Graveyard Poets but these were writing poetry a long time before Gray's Elegy. The first poem of the Graveyard school was Thomas Parnell's A Night-Piece on Death  from 1721 when Gray was five years old... Colin4C (talk) 11:43, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The Churchyard Poets" 

message: Poets Corner includes Gray as having a memorial, but none is mentioned here. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:14, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Westminster Abbey? 

message: Gray is such an  immortal soul in English Literature that on his part gave a distinguished Linguistic purity to English Literature.His exact imagery, solemn meditation and authorised diction have made him an unparallel voice of true of feelings.  Birbal Kumawat (talk) 08:34, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas Gray 

message: ...often afraid of the shadows of his own fame
:If this is a quotation, it should carry quote-marks. Otherwise I think it's not encyclopedic. Valetude (talk) 14:05, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote? 

message: I believe he knew Welsh and Icelandic, as well as Latin and Greek, and probably French and Italian too. Can anyone confirm? Esedowns (talk) 00:44, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scholarship