Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard

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Title

Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard

Description

A poem written by Thomas Gray. The poem's narrator contemplates death and thinks about the remembrances that come after death while in a churchyard. Very popular in its time. Published in London: printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall. This copy sold by M. Cooper in Pater-Norther-Row 1751 (price: six pence). Stored in vault. Red leather. Gold ink with the title (Grey’s Elegy) flowers, and 1751.

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Creator

Thomas Grey

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Citation

Thomas Grey, “Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard,” Drew University Library Special Collections, accessed November 22, 2024, http://omeka.drew.edu/items/show/568.

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