Thomas Gray

William, baptised in 1727, became a clergyman and a friend of the poet Thomas Gray .

Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton , Gray , Edward Young . She imitates Pope on solitude, writes first of James Hervey 's...

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

The Strawberry Hill Press was active for decades. Its first publication, Two Odes by Walpole's friend Thomas Gray , appeared on 8 August.

She was delighted to learn that Thomas Gray had once lived there.

The title poem alludes through its name to Mozart 's Magic Flute. Its protagonist, Catherine, nearly eighteen, is gently mocked for her literary aspirations: Her Poems good, if not surprising, / On Friendship, Death...

Under her own name ECW published her final novel, Youth on the Prow (whose title is quoted from Thomas Gray ), again in three volumes.