THOMAS GRAY ON HIMSELF: A Deep Dive into Elegy
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn Thomas Gray’s Elegy, he writes a good deal about himself. The six stanzas in the main text and a tail-like appendix of three stanzas called the Epitaph are all self-drawn character studies of the poet. Many critics argue that the Elegy would have been greater and more artistic without these nine stanzas. This criticism deserves close examination. Nine stanzas…
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