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Holograph manuscript of Gray's "Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard". The poem most likely originated in the poetry that Gray composed in 1742. William Mason, in Memoirs, discussed his friend Gray and the origins of Elegy: "I am inclined to believe that the Elegy in a Country Church-yard was begun, if not concluded, at this time [August 1742] also: Though I am aware that as it stands at ...
The poem describes the sight of a thirteenth-century church in what is now known as Middleton-on-Sea in West Sussex. The churchyard of the poem's title was the church's cemetery. The area had been subject to substantial erosion since at least 1341, and preventative measures were employed in 1570 and 1779.
Swinburne Poems and Prose (1940) introduction by Richard Church; The Solitary Man (1941) Twentieth Century Psalter (1943) Poems of Our Time, 1900-1942 (1945) editor, with M. M. Bozman; The Lamp (1946) Collected Poems (1948) Poems for Speaking; an Anthology with an Essay on Reading Aloud (1950) editor; Selected Lyrical Poems (1951) The Prodigal ...
The reverend Frederick Kates distributed about 200 unattributed copies as devotional materials for his congregation at Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore during 1959 or 1960. [1] [3] The papers mentioned the church's foundation date of 1692, which has caused many to falsely assume that the date is that of the poem's origination. [4] [5]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Poetry by country" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 ...
In an early work, Portrait of the Fen Country (1971), Storey reflected on his childhood understanding of the world as shaped by his Fenland experience. In Fen Boy First (1992), published by Robert Hale Ltd, he gave an account of growing up in Whittlesey and in Fen Country Christmas (1995) he collected a number of stories, legends and fenland ...
G. R. Hibbard: "The Country House Poem of the Seventeenth Century," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 19 (1956), pp. 159–174; William McClung: The Country House in English Renaissance Poetry (1977) Hugh Jenkins: Feigned Commonwealths, the Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community (1998, ISBN 0-8207-0292-7)
A late Victorian English poem from the 1880s, "Chertsey Curfew" by Boyd Montgomerie Ranking, treats the same events. [8] In 1895, Stanley Hawley wrote music to accompany the poem's recitation (a performance tradition known as melodrama). This was published as sheet music by Robert Cooks and Co. [9] The poem was widely known in the English ...