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Born	December 26, 1716 • London • England
Died	July 30, 1771 (aged 54) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works	“An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” • “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” • “The Bard” • “The Progress of Poesy”
Movement / Style	graveyard school

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Thomas Gray, detail of an oil painting by John Giles Eccardt; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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