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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.
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , published in 1751.
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 ...
Gray's Elegy (1750) [74] Thomas Gray was a regular visitor to Stoke Poges, which was home to his mother and an aunt, [ 75 ] and the churchyard at St Giles is reputed to have been the inspiration for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , though this is not universally accepted. [ 76 ]
Moving beyond the elegy lamenting a single death, their purpose was rarely sensationalist. As the century progressed, "graveyard" poetry increasingly expressed a feeling for the " sublime " and uncanny, and an antiquarian interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry.
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 pastoral elegy is a poem about both death and idyllic rural life. Often, the pastoral elegy features shepherds. The genre is actually a subgroup of pastoral poetry, as the elegy takes the pastoral elements and relates them to expressing grief at a loss. This form of poetry has several key features, including the invocation of the Muse ...
These works appeared in Pope's lifetime and were popular, but the older, more conservative poetry maintained its hold for a while to come. On the other hand, Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard set off a new craze for poetry of melancholy reflection. Gray's Elegy appeared in 1750, and it immediately set new ground. First, it was ...