While a student at Eton, he formed the "Quadruple Alliance" with Richard West, Horace Walpole, and Thomas Ashton.  Some of his lesser works include Ode on the Spring, Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West, Hymn to Adversity, and Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, which includes the line, "
While a student at Eton, he formed the "Quadruple Alliance" with Richard West, Horace Walpole, and Thomas Ashton.  Some of his lesser works include Ode on the Spring, Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West, Hymn to Adversity, and Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, which includes the line, "where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise."  The creator of the poem Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Bathtub, FTP, name this lyric English poet who penned Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
While a student at Eton, he formed the "Quadruple Alliance" with Richard West, Horace Walpole, and Thomas Ashton.  
Thomas Gray