Talk:Thomas Gray

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[edit] Fishy edit

64.250.194.65 introduced quite confusing Clinton Hamner name and date of birth as 1991 ... can we get revert?

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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)


[edit] Elegy

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)

-I think we should definitely give it it's own article with some commentary and its legacy. --131.93.88.34 (talk) 21:06, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Collection of Works

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

[edit] Elegy and Collection of Works

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)

[edit] Engraving Based on Gray's "Ode on a Spring"

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)