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Gray was educated at?

AOxford and Harvard

BYale and Princeton

CEton and Cambridge

DDurham and Edinburgh

Answer:

C. Eton and Cambridge

Read Explanation:

  • Thomas Gray was educated at Eton College, where he began his early education, and later at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he pursued his higher studies.

  • At Cambridge, Gray became part of a small intellectual group known as the "Graveyard School," which was focused on themes of death and the human condition—ideas that would later influence his famous work "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."

  • Gray's time at these prestigious institutions played a significant role in shaping his literary career and intellectual development.


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