An elegy written in a country churchyard
Gray, Thomas, 1716-17712021
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'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' has been loved and admired throughout the centuries. First circulated to a select group of friends, it was rushed to official publication in 1751 in order to avoid pirated copies being sold without the young poet's permission. Praised by Samuel Johnson, reprinted over and over again in Gray's lifetime and recited by generations of school children, it is one of the most famous poems in the English language. This edition reproduces the exquisite wood engravings made by Agnes Miller Parker in 1938. Parker visited the churchyard at St Giles, Stoke Poges, where the poem is set, in order to make her sketches, and all thirty-two stanzas of the poem are accompanied by detailed full-page illustrations.
Main title:
An elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray.
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Edition:
Collector's edition / illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker ; introduction by Carol Rumens.
Imprint:
Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2021.
Collation:
88 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781851245772 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1227810
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