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“#Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”
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December 26, 1716-
July 30, 1771
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December 26, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Today marks the 255th anniversary of the death of Thomas Gray (1716-1771)—poet, letter-writer, scholar, polymath.

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Gray's monument, Stoke Pges
July 30, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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You know… it is significantly harder than you might think to find reference photos of a guy putting ON a shirt.
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June 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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We have added three pre-1800 editions of Gray's poems to the #ThomasGrayArchive's digital library:

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November 30, 2023 at 2:02 PM
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On this day (285 years ago), Gray arrived back in England from the Grand Tour he undertook with Horace Walpole between 1739 and 1741.

Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/RoB_2011

#c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #GrandTour #OTD
Horace Walpole, by Jonathan Richardson (1735)
September 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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Why did I spend so much time drawing the contents of this cabinet? It’s supposed to be a storyboard. I don’t think the precise folds of Thomas’s socks are crucial to the plot of his story. #OC #DigitalArt #VisualStorytelling #Comics #Art #ArtProcess #ThomasGray
June 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Very pleased to announce the addition of the 592 surviving letters in Thomas Gray’s correspondence to the #ThomasGrayArchive integrated finding aid to Thomas Gray manuscripts:

www.thomasgray.org/resources/fi...

#c18th #correspondence #letters #findingaid #ThomasGray #DigitalHumanities #18thCentury
Facsimile of a letter from Thomas Gray to James Brown, 2 November 1765
July 1, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Happy birthday, #ThomasGray, born #OTD 1716, whose lines are slightly misquoted by Mrs Elton in #JaneAusten's #Emma 😊
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December 26, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:

www.thomasgray.org/about/histor...

#Gaeta #c18th #Latin #poetry #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC
Facsimile of the 1793 title page printed by Bodoni of Gray's Poems
April 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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September 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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September 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me."
Thomas Gray (1751)
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November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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September 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Delighted to be at days 3 and 4 of #ASECS2025! Looking forward to papers on #ThomasGray, the 'low-brow' 18th c., #DigitalScholarship we should be using, the global 18th c., and #DigitalTools for the exchange of ideas.

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April 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Happy 309th birthday, Thomas Gray!

Explore Gray's life and works at the #ThomasGrayArchive: www.thomasgray.org

Thomas Gray in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers...

#c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #otd #btd #onthisday #18thC #ThomasGray #digitalhumanities
Thomas Gray (1716-1771) © National Portrait Gallery, London
December 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Am I missing anything? What else does Thomas need to patch up a hemorrhaging chest wound? Apparently I’m just in a “draw things” mood. Whatever, I’ll just go with it. #Art #OC #DigitalArt #Comics #ArtProcess #VisualStorytelling #ThomasGray
June 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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This one makes me feel all warm and fuzzy 🥰. Sweet boys. I’m gonna tiptoe away and make them some lunch. I knocked this one out pretty quickly and tried not to get hung up on the details. I’m really pleased with how it turned out. #Art #DigitalArt #CharacterArt #LGBTQArt #QueerLove #OC #ThomasGray
June 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Very pleased to announce the availability of a digital rhyme-index to the complete English poems of Thomas Gray:

eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/resources/rh...

#ThomasGrayArchive #c18th #poetry #RhymeIndex #dh #c18dh #ThomasGray #18thC
September 2, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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OTD (273 years ago): Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray (1753), the first authorized collected edition of Gray's poetry, published by Robert Dodsley.

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www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib...

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Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray (1753)
March 29, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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On this day (258 years ago), collected Poems by Mr. Gray (1768) published by James Dodsley in London.

Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1768d#11

#c18th #poetry #DH #18thCentury #ThomasGray #Poems #OnThisDay #OTD
Dodsley's Poems by Mr. Gray (1768)
March 12, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2026 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:

www.thomasgray.org/about/histor...

#c18th #correspondence #map #letters #findingaid #ThomasGray #poetry #DigitalHumanities
Screenshot of a detail of the interactive map of Thomas Gray's correspondence
April 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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OTD (276 years ago): Gray completed the Elegy at Stoke Poges and sent it to Horace Walpole who circulated it in MS among his friends and acquaintances.

Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/resources/findaid/poems/work/elcc

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Elegy in Gray's Commonplace Book (1750)
June 12, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM