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Article: Thomas Gray: A Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Antioch Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Antioch Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Thomas Gray: A Life by Robert L. Mack. Yale University Press, 718 pp., $39.95. This leisurely biography opens with a drive down congested modem motorways to St. Giles, the site of Gray's tomb and probable inspiration for his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," in an attempt to form a concrete link between present and past, a paradigm for Mack's larger intentions. If the poetry is firmly grounded in English and Latin tradition, it also expresses, as Mack sees it, not only a strong humanist base in the concept of the individual, but personal emotions about which the poet himself had highly conflicting feelings. Part of a growing middle class, Gray attended Eton and ...
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...Thomas Gray Moore, Sr., 75, of Radford, Va., and previously of Dunagannon ... in death by his parents, Kyle E. and Zelma E. Moore; and a son, Thomas Gray Moore, Jr. He is survived by his loving wife of 50 years, Shirley ...
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