An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript
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"An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard" by Thomas Gray is a poem completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. Written after personal losses, including the death of Gray's aunt, the poem meditates on death and remembrance. It contemplates the lives of obscure country people buried in a churchyard, exploring how individuals are remembered after death. The narrator finds both comfort and unease in pondering mortality, ultimately adding an epitaph
that addresses his own fear of dying. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 52002949 |
| Title | An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegy_Written_in_a_Country_Churchyard |
| Credits |
Produced by David Starner, Diane Monico and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 58.9 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | English poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 15409 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-15409-1 |
| Release Date | Mar 18, 2005 |
| Last Update | Dec 14, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 884 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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