"all, particularly Propertius, drew influence from Callimachus, and they also clearly read each other and responded to each other's works. Notably, Catullus and Ovid wrote in non-elegiac meters as well, but Propertius and Tibullus did not. The ""elegy"" was originally a classical form with few English examples. However, in 1751, Thomas Gray wrote ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"". That poem inspired numerous imitators, and soon both the revived Pindaric ode and ""elegy"" were commonplace. Gray used the term ""elegy"" for a poem of solitude and mourning, and not just for funereal (eulogy) verse. He also freed the elegy from"
"Poges, the setting for his famous ""Elegy"". His grave can still be seen there. Thomas Gray Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,"" published in 1751. Gray was an extremely self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being extremely popular. He was even offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1757, though he declined. Thomas Gray was born in Cornhill, London. His father, Philip Gray, was a scrivener and"
"Lawrence Brockett, but he secured the position in 1768 after Brockett's death. It is believed that Gray began writing his masterpiece, the ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"", in the graveyard of St. Giles parish church in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, in 1742. After several years of leaving it unfinished, he completed it in 1750 (see Elegy for the form). The poem was a literary sensation when published by Robert Dodsley in February 1751 (see 1751 in poetry). Its reflective, calm, and stoic tone was greatly admired, and it was pirated, imitated, quoted, and translated into Latin and Greek. It is"
"Thomas Gray Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,"" published in 1751. Gray was an extremely self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being extremely popular. He was even offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1757, though he declined. Thomas Gray was born in Cornhill, London. His father, Philip Gray, was a scrivener and his mother, Dorothy Antrobus, was a milliner. He was the fifth of twelve children,"
"""Elegy"": ""I am inclined to believe that the Elegy in a Country Church-yard was begun, if not concluded, at this time [August 1742] also: Though I am aware that as it stands at present, the conclusion is of a later date; how that was originally I shall show in my notes on the poem."" Mason's argument was a guess, but he argued that one of Gray's poems from the Eton Manuscript, a copy of Gray's handwritten poems owned by Eton College, was a 22-stanza rough draft of the Elegy called ""Stanza's Wrote in a Country Church-Yard"". The manuscript copy contained"
"on All Souls' Day of that same year. Bishop George Thomas Montgomery offered a Solemn Pontifical Mass on a temporary altar at the site, and afterwards presided at the setting in place of the cornerstone. It was designed as a replica of the parish church of St. Giles in the rural town of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, in England. That church is believed to have been the setting of the 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 opening. All Souls Chapel is now"
"in a Country Churchyard"". Immediately, he included the poem in a letter he sent to Walpole, that said: The letter reveals that Gray felt that the poem was unimportant, and that he did not expect it to become as popular or influential as it did. Gray dismisses its positives as merely being that he was able to complete the poem, which was probably influenced by his experience of the churchyard at Stoke Poges, where he attended the Sunday service and was able to visit the grave of Antrobus. The version that was later published and reprinted was a 32-stanza version"
"poems, there are the stirrings of the lyric as the Romantics would see it: the celebration of the private individual's idiosyncratic, yet paradigmatic, responses to the visions of the world. These hints at the solitary poet were carried into a new realm with Thomas Gray, whose ""Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard"" (1750) set off a new craze for poetry of melancholy reflection. It was written in the ""country,"" and not in or as opposed to London, and the poem sets up the solitary observer in a privileged position. It is only by being solitary that the poet can speak"
"work as well. At that period an anonymous review in ""The Academy"" (12 December 1896) claimed that ""Gray's 'Elegy' and Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village' shine forth as the two human poems in a century of artifice."" The Elegy's continued influence in the 19th century provoked a response from the Romantic poets, who often attempted to define their own beliefs in reaction to Gray's. Percy Bysshe Shelley, for example, who as a schoolboy was given the exercise of translating part of the Elegy into Latin, eventually wrote his own meditation among the graves in 1815. His ""A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade,"
"importantly, that in its essentials Gray's ""Elegy"" touches this tradition at many points, and consideration of them is of interest to both to appreciation of the poem and to seeing how [...] they become in the later tradition essential points of reference."" Also in 1977, Thomas Carper noted, ""While Gray was a schoolboy at Eton, his poetry began to show a concern with parental relationships, and with his position among the great and lowly in the world [...] But in the ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"" these longstanding and very human concerns have their most affecting expression."" In 1978,"
"life before the poetic gift has expressed itself fully. This strong pathos of Gray's ""Elegy"" achieves a central position as the antithetical tradition that truly mourns primarily a loss of the self."" In 1988, Morris Golden, after describing Gray as a ""poet's poet"" and places him ""within the pantheon of those poets with whom familiarity is inescapable for anyone educated in the English language"" declared that in ""the 'Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard,' mankind has felt itself to be directly addressed by a very sympathetic, human voice."" He later pointed out: ""Gray's 'Elegy' was universally admired in his lifetime"
"lines of verse in 304 stanzas, each with a period at the end to show a ""completeness"" in each stanza. While the form had achieved fame with other poets of Dryden's era and was considered ""fashionable"" by figures of the literary world, Dryden's poem quickly became known as the standard-bearer of the genre. In 1751, Thomas Gray published ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"", composed in the heroic stanza. Written in iambic pentameter, the poem followed the same metrical and structural patterns seen in ""Annus Mirabilis"", but the use of the poetic form in an elegy gave it the title"
"written a letter to him claiming, ""Of all the English poets of this age, Mr. Gray is most admired, and I think with justice; yet there are comparatively speaking but a few who know of anything of his, but his 'Church-yard Elegy,' which is by no means the best of his works."" There is a story that the British General James Wolfe read the poem before his troops arrived at the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 as part of the Seven Years' War. After reading the poem, he is reported to have said: ""Gentlemen, I would rather have written"
"English poetic forms and folk poetry. They are often considered precursors of the Gothic genre. The poets include Thomas Gray (1716–71), whose ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"" (1751) is ""the best known product of this kind of sensibility""; William Cowper (1731–1800); Christopher Smart (1722–71); Thomas Chatterton (1752–70); Robert Blair (1699–1746), author of ""The Grave"" (1743), ""which celebrates the horror of death""; and Edward Young (1683–1765), whose ""The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality"" (1742–45) is another ""noted example of the graveyard genre"". Other precursors of Romanticism are the poets James Thomson (1700–48) and James Macpherson (1736–96)."
"known his ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"", William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose joint work ""Lyrical Ballads"" is often seen to mark the beginning of the Romantic movement, later Romantics such as Lord Byron and the postromantic Alfred, Lord Tennyson, classical scholar and lyric poet A. E. Housman, war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke, modernist T. E. Hulme, confessional poets Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and John Berryman, and, more recently, Cecil Day-Lewis, Joseph Brodsky, Kathleen Raine and Geoffrey Hill. In all, at least nine of the Poets Laureate graduated from Cambridge. The university has also made a"
"a Garrison Churchyard"", under the title ""A Garrison Churchyard"". In the same year, the English composer Cyril Scott (18791970) also published a setting of that last poem, under the title ""Garrison Churchyard"". Eric Thirkell Cooper Eric Thirkell Cooper (18861960) was a British soldier and war poet during World War I. Cooper was born in 1886 in Beckenham, Kent. He served with the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), reaching the rank of Major. He published two collections of poems: ""Soliloquies of a Subaltern Somewhere in France"" (1915) and ""Tommies of the Line, and Other Poems"" (1918). In 1916, the English"
"Ali Haider Tabatabai Ali Haider Tabatabai (or Syed Ali Hyder Nazm Tabatabai) born 1854 in Awadh, died 1933 in Hyderabad Deccan, India, was a poet, translator and a scholar of languages. He descended from a long line of soldiers. He is known for his poetic translation into Urdu of Thomas Gray's masterpiece """"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"""". Ali Hyder's grandfather [Syed Mehdi Tabatabai] was a member of the Royal Guards under the Qajar dynasty of Iran. His father was [Syed Mustafa Tabatabai]. His cousin Buti Begum was the wife of king Wajid Ali Shah. Tabatabai is a large family"
"the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. This includes the graveyard poets, from the 1740s and later, whose works are characterised by gloomy meditations on mortality. To this was added, by later practitioners, a feeling for the 'sublime' and uncanny, and an interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry. The poets include Thomas Gray (1716–1771), ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"" (1751) in and Edward Young (1683–1765), ""The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality"" (1742–45). Other precursors are James Thomson (1700–1748) and James Macpherson"
"well as the Romantic movement. The Graveyard School is an indefinite literary grouping that binds together a wide variety of authors; what makes a poem a ""graveyard"" poem remains open to critical dispute. At its narrowest, the term ""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 The Grave (poem), and Edward Young's Night-Thoughts. At its broadest, it can describe a host of poetry and prose works popular in the early and mid-eighteenth century. The term itself was not used as a brand for the poets and their"
"Old Gray Cemetery was previously pastureland located just outside Knoxville's northwestern city limits. Only a mile from the city's downtown area, it was considered ideal for a suburban cemetery. The first land for the cemetery was purchased in December 1849, and landscape architect Frederick Douglass was hired to come up with a groundplan. At the suggestion of Reese's wife, Henrietta, the cemetery was named after English poet Thomas Gray, author of ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"". The cemetery was dedicated on June 1, 1852, with the sale of the first 40 grave lots. The first burial had, however, occurred"
"on mortality, ""skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms"" in the context of the graveyard. To this was added, by later practitioners, a feeling for the 'sublime' and uncanny, and an interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetry. They are often considered precursors of the Gothic genre. The poets include; Thomas Gray (1716–71), ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"" (1751) ; William Cowper (1731–1800); Christopher Smart (1722–71); Thomas Chatterton (1752–70); Robert Blair (1699–1746); and Edward Young (1683–1765), ""The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality"" (1742–45). Other precursors of Romanticism are the poets James Thomson (1700–48) and"
"a Country Churchyard"" (1750). In French, perhaps the most famous elegy is ""Le Lac"" (1820) by Alphonse de Lamartine. ""Elegy"" (French: ""élégie"") may denote a type of musical work, usually of a sad or somber nature. A well-known example is the Élégie, Op. 10, by Jules Massenet. This was originally written for piano, as a student work; then he set it as a song; and finally it appeared as the ""Invocation"", for cello and orchestra, a section of his incidental music to Leconte de Lisle's ""Les Érinnyes"". Elegy In English literature, an elegy is a poem of serious reflection, usually"
"Gharibaan (Graves of the poors) is a translation of Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. The most remarkable thing is that it is a poem translated into a poem; those who master both in Urdu and English can understand the extent of accuracy in meanings and sense. If either of the poem is translated into other language in text the reader will find no resemblance what so ever, but translating an idiom of English into an idiom of Urdu conveying exactly the same sense though word to word meanings might be different. This can very easily be seen"
"the poem with the addition of 11 lines. These 11 lines were the final 11 lines of the 1790 version: This addition was probably not done by Coleridge and does not match the rhythm of the rest of the poem. Instead, it is possible that Coleridge's nephew took lines from the original poem and added it to the 1829 edition when editing the 1834 collection of poems. The original version contains hints of Romantic themes when it mourns the death of Chatterton. Coleridge was influenced by John Milton's ""Lycidas"", Gray's ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"", and the poetry of"
"importance of labor in the pastoral lifestyle. The pastoral elegy is a subgenre that uses pastoral elements to lament a death or loss. The most famous pastoral elegy in English is John Milton's ""Lycidas"" (1637), written on the death of Edward King, a fellow student at Cambridge University. Milton used the form both to explore his vocation as a writer and to attack what he saw as the abuses of the Church. Also included is Thomas Gray's, ""Elegy on a Country Churchyard"" (1750). The formal English pastoral continued to flourish during the 18th century, eventually dying out at the end."
"the injustice of society as we do the inevitability of death."" T. S. Eliot’s 1932 collection of essays contained a comparison of the elegy to the sentiment found in metaphysical poetry: ""The feeling, the sensibility, expressed in the ""Country Churchyard"" (to say nothing of Tennyson and Browning) is cruder than that in the ""Coy Mistress""."" Later, in 1947, Cleanth Brooks pointed out that ""In Gray's poem, the imagery does seem to be intrinsically poetic; the theme, true; the 'statement', free from ambiguity, and free from irony."" After describing various aspects and complexities within the poem, Brooks provided his view on"
"an Empty Assembly-Room"" (1756). Although its preface describes the poem as ""being a Parody on the most remarkable Passages in the well-known Epistle of ""Eloisa to Abelard"""", its title also places it among the contemporary parodies 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 adds a new level of subtlety. A later work, ""Eloisa en deshabille, being a new version of that lady's celebrated epistle to Abelard"" (1780), was described at the time as ""a profligate parody of Mr Pope's Epistle"". In"
"chapters: the notion that no true poem can ever be reduced to its paraphrasable prose content. In a similar vein, Brooks analyzes Thomas Gray's ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"". The message of this poem seems straightforward and was duplicated by many other ""graveyard"" poems of the late eighteenth century. Therefore, according to Brooks, what makes it one of the most famous in the English language cannot be the poem's message. Brooks instead focuses on the poem's dramatic context as the source of its power. The most famous and best-known application of this doctrine of dramatic appropriateness is Brooks's analysis"
"first introduced by the Greek poet Theocritus in his Idylls. Set in the countryside, his poems reflect on folk traditions and involve dialogue between shepherds. This style of poetry was later adapted by the Roman poet Virgil, who frequently set his poems in Arcadia. Over time, the genre was adapted by a variety of different poets to include various themes, including romance, drama, courtship, seduction, and death. One of the most popular subgroups of pastoral poetry is the elegy, in which the poet mourns the death of a friend, often a fellow shepherd. Eventually, pastoral poetry became popular among English"
"in the Titles of two poems, Thomas Grays elegy's title is ""elegy written in Country Churchyard"" and Gor e Gharibaan is Persian. Meaning Graves of the poor, sense is the same while word to word translation is different. the most remarkable thing about this poem is that it is written in golden words and kept into world largest museum in England. Osmania University Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI had heard about Ali Hyder, a Shahi Ataleeq of Wajid Ali Shah, Asaf Jah though a very powerful ruler under the British Crown apparently didn't need to be impressed by"
"At the age of fourteen, he was sent to Moscow to be educated at the Moscow University Noblemen's Pension. There he was heavily influenced by Freemasonry, as well as by the fashionable literary trends of English Sentimentalism and German Sturm und Drang. He also met Nikolay Karamzin, the preeminent Russian man of letters and the founding editor of the most important literary journal of the day, ""The Herald of Europe"" (Вестник Европы). In December 1802, the 19-year-old Zhukovsky published a free translation of Thomas Gray's ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"" in Karamzin's journal. The translation was the first sustained"
"Thomas Churchyard Thomas Churchyard (c. 1520 – 1604), English author, was born at Shrewsbury, the son of a farmer. Churchyard received a good education, and, having speedily dissipated at court the money with which his father provided him, he entered the household of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. There he remained for twenty years, learning something of the art of poetry from his patron; some of the poems he contributed later (1555) to Nicholas Grimald's and Richard Tottel's collection, ""Songes and Sonettes"" (known more often as ""Tottel's Miscellany""), may well date from this early period. In 1541 he began his"
"as proper for poetic expression. A notable successor in that line was Edward Yonge's ""Night Thoughts"" (1742–1744). It was, even more than ""Winter"", a poem of deep solitude, melancholy and despair. In all the poems mentioned, there are the stirrings of the lyric as the Romantics would see it: the celebration of the private individual's idiosyncratic, yet paradigmatic, responses to the visions of the world. These works appeared in Pope's lifetime and were popular, but the older, more conservative poetry maintained its hold for a while to come. On the other hand, Thomas Gray's ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"""