"Elegy written in a country Churchyard" Thomas Gray was a preromantic poet: he was preromantic because he employed a classical form, but he was also romantic beacause he dealt with feelings and ...

The poem “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard”, was written by Thomas Gray in 1742, and, consecutively published (in 1751), shortly after the death of his close friend, Richard West.

as may be seen from his first stanza: 'Piange la squilla 'l giorno che si muore, Lento in recinto i buoi traggono il piede, A casa strascina l'aratore, E alle tenebre il mondo ed a me cede'. The only ...

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Grave. A poem. By Robert Blair To which is added, An elegy written in a country church-yard. By Mr Gray (Online) ...

Grave; by Robert Blair: to which is added Gray's Elegy in a country Church Yard. With notes moral critical and explanatory (Online) ...

The Thomas Gray Archive — thomasgray.org — is a collaborative digital archive and research project devoted to eighteenth-century poet, letter-writer, and scholar Thomas Gray (1716-1771), author of the ...

The stanza form is based on Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, from which Burns borrows line 2. Burns did not settle the bill until 1792, but explained the delay in a letter to ...

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