TY - BOOK AU - Gray,Thomas TI - An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript AV - PR PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - English poetry N1 - 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15409 ER -