Which country churchyard in Buckinghamshire inspired Thomas Grey to write his well- known Elegy?
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"affect the development of lyric poetry in English"". While analyzing the use of ""death"" in 18th-century poetry, David Morris, in 2001, declared the poem as ""a monument in this ongoing transformation of death"" and that ""the poem in its quiet portraits of rural life succeeds in drawing the forgotten dead back into the community of the living."" Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 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 partly inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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)."
"to the house and rented it as a studio for some time. His most famous painting, ""The Monarch of the Glen"" (1851), is said to have been created at Stoke Poges, with the deer in the park used as models. Stoke Poges has a primary school called The Stoke Poges School. There is also a Sikh faith secondary school, Khalsa Secondary Academy, whose curriculum includes horse riding and archery. It is rated 'Good' by Ofsted. Gray's ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"" is believed to have been written in the churchyard of the Church of England parish church of Saint"
"detailed with unusual tracery. Some say that it was the churchyard of St Mary’s, and not St Giles of Stoke Poges, that was the inspiration for Thomas Gray’s famous elegy ""In an English Churchyard"". This theory suggested by Rev. H. Cavalier, the rector of Great Brington in 1926, is based on observations comparing the two churchyards and the lines in the poem. The village has a very strong community spirit, with a number of events taking place on an yearly basis, one of which is the Grand Fete, usually held on the last bank holiday Monday in August. In more"
"poem's use of language as a reason for its importance and popularity. In 1995, Lorna Clymer argued, ""The dizzying series of displacements and substitutions of subjects, always considered a crux in Thomas Gray's ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"" (1751), results from a complex manipulation of epitaphic rhetoric."" Later, Robert Mack, in 2000, explained that ""Gray's ""Elegy"" is numbered high among the very greatest poems in the English tradition precisely because of its simultaneous accessibility and inscrutability."" He went on to claim that the poem ""was very soon to transform his life – and to transform or at least profoundly"
"Upton Grey Upton Grey is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. The village is on the line of an ancient Roman road, the Chichester to Silchester Way. The Grey derives from the years when the village was owned by the de Grey family and was used to differentiate the village from the many other Uptons. The Manor House dates from Elizabethan times when the Matthew family lived there. The famous Elizabethan poet, George Puttenham, lived at Herriard House but also had a farm at Upton Grey. It was there that he kept his seventeen-year-old sex slave whom he"
"Ecclefechan Ecclefechan (Scottish Gaelic: ""Eaglais Fheichein"") is a small village in the south of Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway, famous for being the birthplace of poet and author Thomas Carlyle. It also has two food types called after it: the ecclefechan tart and ecclefechan whisky. The name Ecclefechan is derived from the Brythonic for ""small church"" (cognate with Welsh ' meaning church and ' meaning small, which has the form """" following a feminine noun). After Gaelic later spread in the area, the belief arose that the name derived from the 7th century St Féchín of Fore. A suggestion that"
"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,"
"""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"
"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"
"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"
"These works were part of a Jacobean cult of melancholia that marked the end of the Elizabethan era. In the late eighteenth century, literary elegies were a common genre; Thomas Gray's ""Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"" and Edward Young's ""Night Thoughts"" are typical members of the genre. Apart from the genre of requiem and funeral music, there is also a rich tradition of ""memento mori"" in the Early Music of Europe. Especially those facing the ever-present death during the recurring bubonic plague pandemics from the 1340s onward tried to toughen themselves by anticipating the inevitable in chants, from the"
"Thomas Grey (poet) Thomas Grey (1863-1928) was an English poet who wrote about his local area of the Scottish Borders, the First World War and rail transport. Thomas Grey was born on 16 September 1863 at Shoreswood, Norham, in Northumberland. He worked on trains for much of his life for the North Eastern Railway. On 3 July 1887 he married Esther Glenwright at South Shields and they resided in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Grey died on 14 August 1928 and is buried in Tweedmouth Cemetery. Grey was variously known as the ""Border Poet"", ""Engine Driver Poet"" and ""Footplate Poet"". Much of his output"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"verbal parallels, chose similar backgrounds to signal their parentage. One favourite theme was a meditation among ruins, such as John Langhorne's “Written among the ruins of Pontefract Castle” (1756), Edward Moore’s “An elegy, written among the ruins of a nobleman's seat in Cornwall” (1756) and John Cunningham’s “An elegy on a pile of ruins"" (1761). Gray's friend William Mason chose an actual churchyard in South Wales for his “Elegy VI” (1787), adding a reference to the poet in the text. He also provided a final note explaining that the poem was written “to make it appear a day scene, and"
"the Blind), Grey sent them 200 copies of his “effusions” which were then printed in Braille type. Grey was the instigator of the erection of the Tweedmouth War Memorial (on which 111 men are commemorated) and founder member of promoting a fund for the remaining money needed for the erection of the Memorial in July 1921. Thomas Grey (poet) Thomas Grey (1863-1928) was an English poet who wrote about his local area of the Scottish Borders, the First World War and rail transport. Thomas Grey was born on 16 September 1863 at Shoreswood, Norham, in Northumberland. He worked on trains"
"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"
"his deceased friend, echoing Gray's narrator reading the tombstones to connect to the dead. Robert Browning relied on a similar setting to the Elegy in his pastoral poem ""Love Among the Ruins"", which describes the desire for glory and how everything ends in death. Unlike Gray, Browning adds a female figure and argues that nothing but love matters. Thomas Hardy, who had memorised Gray's poem, took the title of his fourth novel, Far from the Madding Crowd, from a line in it. In addition, many in his ""Wessex Poems and Other Verses"" (1898) contain a graveyard theme and take a"
"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"
"there is no novelty, no plan and no suite in his poetry; though many of the lines are pretty”. He was a good imitator, however, and even something of a literary barometer, straddling the transition from Augustan literature to early Romanticism, which explains his interest to students of his period today. At the outset of his literary career, Jerningham mixed with the circle about Thomas Gray, although he never met the poet himself. However, like many at the time, he began by writing a close imitation of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard in ""The Nunnery” (1762). Jerningham then"
"epigrams of Thomas Gray were especially severe. He died at Ely House, Dover Street, London, on 6 July 1781 and at his own desire was buried in West's Chapel, Ely Cathedral, with a short epitaph written by himself. Keene was select preacher at Whitehall Chapel in 1738, and published five sermons. He was the author of a translation of the first book of Theocritus, 'by a Gentleman,' which is inserted in John Whalley's ""Poems"" (1745), pp. 133–49. The original edition of Bentham's ""Ely"" was dedicated to him, and to it was prefixed a plate of his arms. He married in"
"Auchengray Auchengray is a small village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It has a small church whose architect was Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832–98), the ground given by George Robertson Chaplin (proprietor) of Colliston House, Arbroath, the uncle of David Souter Robertson of Lawhead House nearby, and Murlingden House. The church has two stained glass rose windows, one of which has a spelling error in ""Haleluya,"" though correctly spelled in the original transliteration of the Hebrew הללויה. White marble memorial stones to GRC and DSR, erected by their tenants, are on the back wall. There was formerly an Auchengray railway station. Next"
"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"
"“The Magdalens: an elegy” (1763); “The Nun: an elegy” (1764); and “An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey” (1765), which is derivative of the earlier poems on ruins by Moore and Cunningham. At the opposite extreme, Gray's poem provided a format for a surprising number that purport to be personal descriptions of life in gaol, starting with “An elegy in imitation of Gray, written in the King's Bench Prison by a minor “ (London 1790), which is close in title to William Thomas Moncrieff’s later ""Prison Thoughts: An elegy, written in the King's Bench Prison"", dating from 1816"