Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Topic

Inevitability of death

Author

Thomas Gray

Source

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1751 1750s 18th century

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Original Citation

Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Robert Dodsley, 1751.

Current Citation

Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Elegy Written In Country Churchyard and Other Poems. Penguin Classics, 2009.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Topic

Simple living Small town life

Author

Thomas Gray

Source

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1751 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Robert Dodsley, 1751.

Current Citation

Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Elegy Written In Country Churchyard and Other Poems. Penguin Classics, 2009.

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Author

Thomas Gray

Source

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Epitaph

Language

English

Time

1751 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Robert Dodsley, 1751.

Current Citation

Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Elegy Written In Country Churchyard and Other Poems. Penguin Classics, 2009.