An Gray, Thomas 1716-1771 creator text utu 2005 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard" by Thomas Gray is a poem completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. Written after personal losses, including the death of Gray's aunt, the poem meditates on death and remembrance. It contemplates the lives of obscure country people buried in a churchyard, exploring how individuals are remembered after death. The narrator finds both comfort and unease in pondering mortality, ultimately adding an epitaph that addresses his own fear of dying. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegy_Written_in_a_Country_Churchyard Release date is 2005-03-18 Produced by David Starner, Diane Monico and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. Original publication data not identified English poetry PR Original publication data not identified 52002949 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15409 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15409 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133348.0 15409