Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem's origins are unknown, but it was...

the elegy. Elegy presents every thing as lost and gone or absent and future. A famous example of elegy is Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard...

known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray was a self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite...

apparent inspiration for Thomas Gray's poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; Gray is buried in the churchyard. The origins of the church are Anglo-Saxon...

a 1917 painting by British artist C. R. W. Nevinson. The title quotes from a line from Thomas Gray's 1750 poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:...

Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,” which reflects on the death of Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", which mourns...

written in elegiac couplets Elegies by Propertius (ca. 50-15 BC) Elegy, a 1586 poem by Chidiock Tichborne "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", a 1751...

"Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death", Robert Blair's...

genre; Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Edward Young's Night Thoughts are typical members of the genre. In the European devotional...

Dryden. In the 18th century famous poets such as Thomas Gray continued to use the form in works such as "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". Shakespearean...

scheme of ABAB. An example can be found in the following of Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". The curfew tolls the knell of parting...

form with few English examples. However, in 1751, Thomas Gray wrote "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard". That poem inspired numerous imitators, and...

famed 18th-century poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. The chapel became one of the most visited places of worship in Southern California after its...

seen in the Candleshoe library at sunrise. "The paths of glory lead but to the grave". This refers to the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by...

earliest Latin translations of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, which went through several editions both in England and abroad. Anstey was the...

hand in marriage. She accepts, and the two are quietly married. Hardy took the title from Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751):...

village church at Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire, where the poet Thomas Gray had written "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," a famous English poem. Ross...

novel written for children. 1751: Thomas Gray wrote Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Also in 1751, Denis Diderot began the Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire...

A cultured man, before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham Wolfe is said by John Robison to have recited Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard...

Madding Crowd", a quotation from the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray The Madding Crowd, a 2000 album by Nine Days This disambiguation...

Multiple examples can be seen in lines such as the following from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray, published in 1751: Th' applause of list'ning...

John Dryden, pre-romantic poet Thomas Gray best known his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose...

of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard whose object was to give them an unlikely setting. Imitation of lines from Pope's epistle in this context...

Father of the United States (6 November 1816), quoting from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray on being told the weather was fine "There...

genre. Gothic poets include Thomas Gray (1716–71), whose Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) is "the best known product of this kind of sensibility";...

Farr and Nigel Patrick. The title comes from lines in Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751): "Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust...

Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: "The paths of glory lead but to the grave" Paths of Glory (novel), a 2009 novel on Everest...

(Gollancz, 1937) Thomas Gray – Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard (NY: Limited Editions Club, 1940) A.E. Housman – A Shropshire Lad (Harrap, 1940) William...

Thomas Gray's 1751 poem, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, and tells the story of a man who wishes to be a conqueror. A series of illusions follows...

soldier in attack (uncredited) The title of Cobb's novel came from the ninth stanza of Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751)...