Thomas Gray (1716-1771), An Anniversary Exhibition
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The exhibition focusses on three defining themes in Gray’s life and reputation: his relationship with Cambridge (Britain) and the effect on him and on his work of the friends and enemies he made at the University; his activity as a reader, in particular as a user of the libraries of his two Colleges; and the publishing phenomenon of the ‘Elegy’, his most significant poem and one steeped in his appreciation and emulation of classical tradition, as well as his sense of place and of English history and the history of English poetry.
The exhibition focusses on three defining themes in Gray’s life and reputation: his relationship with Cambridge (Britain) and the effect on him and on his work of the friends and enemies he made at the University; his activity as a reader, in particular as a user of the libraries of his two Colleges; and the publishing phenomenon of the ‘Elegy’, his most significant poem and one steeped in his appreciation and emulation of classical tradition, as well as his sense of place and of English history and the history of English poetry.