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  2. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Wikipedia

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    The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r

  3. Graveyard poets - Wikipedia

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    However, a more contemplative mood is achieved in the celebrated opening verse of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751 [13]): The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. (1–4)

  4. Curfew bell - Wikipedia

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    St Peter's Church, Sandwich, where a curfew bell is still rung at 8 pm every evening.. The custom of ringing the curfew bell continued in many British towns and cities, especially in the north of England, well into the 19th century, although by then it had ceased to have any legal status. [12]

  5. Piers Plowman tradition - Wikipedia

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    Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, an anonymous, Lollard, alliterative, anticlerical, satirical poem written c. 1395 and printed in 1553 and 1561. The Plowman's Tale, also known as The Complaynte of the Ploughman, a Lollard poem written c. 1400 and printed by itself about 1533-1536 and again about 1548.

  6. Arthur Hardwick Marsh - Wikipedia

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    Other paintings include The Wayfarers (1879), The Turnip Cutter (1902), The Ploughman Homeward Plods his Weary Way, The Worker, [3] The wreck of the Hesperus (1868), Lady Macbeth (1878) and In the Cottage Garden (1886). [4] A stained-glass window attributed to him is in Holy Trinity Church in Aldershot in Hampshire.

  7. The Ploughman - Wikipedia

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    "Y Llafurwr", known in English as "The Ploughman" or "The Labourer", is a poem in the form of a cywydd by the 14th-century Welsh poet Iolo Goch. Often compared with William Langland 's Middle English Piers Plowman , it presents a sympathetic portrayal of the meek and godly ploughman; no other Welsh bardic poem takes an ordinary working man as ...

  8. “Hillbilly Elegy” Director Ron Howard Says He’s ‘Very ...

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    Filmmaker Ron Howard is sharing his thoughts about J.D. Vance vice presidential candidacy, four years after he adapted Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy,into a Netflix film of the same name.. In an ...

  9. Pastoral elegy - Wikipedia

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    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 ...