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First page of Dodsley's illustrated edition of Gray's Elegy with illustration by Richard Bentley. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. [1] The poem's origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742.
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a ...
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Duinskie elegii Дуинские элегии [Duino Elegies] (PDF) (in Russian). Translated by Mikushevich, Vladimir Borisovich. ImWerdenVerlag. 2002. Duinskie elegii Дуинские элегии [Duino Elegies] (in Russian). Translated by Tarzayeva, Vera. AATRONIK. 2011. ISBN 9785904547127.
The Revised Vietnamese Version Bible (RVV11): This translation, published by the United Bible Societies (UBS), was published in 2010. It is not a new translation, but is a revision of the traditional 1925/1934 version, done by a UBS translation team to translate from the more archaic Vietnamese language to a more current Vietnamese language.
Arnold begins "The Scholar Gipsy" in pastoral mode, invoking a shepherd and describing the beauties of a rural scene, with Oxford in the distance. He then repeats the gist of Glanvill's story, but extends it with an account of rumours that the scholar gipsy was again seen from time to time around Oxford.
In the allegorical prologue to the Scalacronica, Grey relates a dream in which Thomas of Otterbourne holds a five-runged ladder, the symbolism of which is explained by a sibyl. The first four rungs represent the four historians, Walter of Oxford , Bede , Ranulf Higden and John of Tynemouth , whose work is to be the inspiration for the first ...
Francis William Grey (1860–1939) was a British-born Canadian writer and academic. [1] He was most noted for his 1899 novel The Curé of St. Philippe , which was republished by McClelland and Stewart 's New Canadian Library series in 1970.