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Reading Time: 2 minutes Much of the fascination of Gray’s Elegy Written Country Churchyard derives from the wonderful picture of a quiet evening in a country churchyard portrayed in the first few stanzas of the poem. Gray has succeeded in providing the proper background and atmosphere for his thoughts. He aims to write about the short, simple annals…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Gray‘s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is among the most popular of English poems. It appears in major anthologies and has fascinated generations. It is not the greatest or even the most typical of Gray’s poems, yet it has attained popularity that is denied to his other masterpieces. The secret of its tremendous…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThomas Gray (1716–1771) was an eminent English poet and scholar. He belonged to the transition school of poets and, thus, was a precursor of the Romantic movement. He is best known for his poem, An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, one of the most famous lyric poems in English. Even with a small literary output,…
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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