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    An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript
    An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript
    An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript
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    An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript

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    An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript

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      An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript - Thomas Gray

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard

      (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript, by Thomas Gray

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      Title: An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript

      Author: Thomas Gray

      Release Date: March 18, 2005 [EBook #15409]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ELEGY WROTE IN A COUNTRY ***

      Produced by David Starner, Diane Monico and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

      The Augustan Reprint Society

      THOMAS GRAY

      An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard

      (1751)

      and

      The Eton College Manuscript

      With an Introduction by

      George Sherburn

      Publication Number 31

      Los Angeles

      Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      University of California

      1951

      GENERAL EDITORS

      H. RICHARD ARCHER, Clark Memorial Library

      RICHARD C. BOYS, University of Michigan

      JOHN LOFTIS, University of California, Los Angeles

      ASSISTANT EDITOR

      W. EARL BRITTON, University of Michigan

      ADVISORY EDITORS

      EMMETT L. AVERY, State College of Washington

      BENJAMIN BOYCE, Duke University

      LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, University of Michigan

      CLEANTH BROOKS, Yale University

      JAMES L. CLIFFORD, Columbia University

      ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, University of Chicago

      EDWARD NILES HOOKER, University of California, Los Angeles

      LOUIS A. LANDA, Princeton University

      SAMUEL H. MONK, University of Minnesota

      ERNEST MOSSNER, University of Texas

      JAMES SUTHERLAND, University College, London

      H.T. SWEDENBERG, JR., University of California, Los Angeles

      INTRODUCTION

      A NOTE ON THE TEXTS

      AN ELEGY WROTE IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD.

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      AN ELEGY &c.

      PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

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      INTRODUCTION

      To some the eighteenth-century definition of proper poetic matter is unacceptable; but to any who believe that true poetry may (if not must) consist in what oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed, Gray's Churchyard is a majestic achievement—perhaps (accepting the definition offered) the supreme achievement of its century. Its success, so the great critic of its day thought, lay in its appeal to the common reader; and though no friend of Gray's other work, Dr. Johnson went on to commend the Elegy as abounding "with images which find a mirrour

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