Twentieth Century Interpretations of Gray's Elegy: A Collection of Critical Essays

achieve adjectives artless Tale relate biographical fallacy Cambridge chearful day Cleanth Brooks Common Place Books commonplaces conclusion country churchyard criticism Cromwell dead dumb Forgetfulness e'er earlier eighteenth century Ellis Empson English epitaph Essays Eton Eton College F. W. Bateson fact Fame Unknown flower grave graveyard Gray wrote Gray's Elegy hoary-headed Swain I. A. Richards Ibid Ignotus imagined interpretation kindred Spirit language later Latin letter lines literary London Lycidas Mason melancholy mind narrator nature obscure Odell Shepard original pastoral paths of glory phrase poem poet's poetic poetry poor Professor Shepard published quatrain reader refer Reprinted by permission Richard West rude forefathers rustic seems sense simple annals Spokesman stanzas Stoke Poges Stonecutter Stonecutter's storied urn T. S. Eliot thee Thomas Gray tolls the knell tombs uncouth Rhimes unletter'd Muse verse village poet Walpole warm precincts West's death William Empson wish words Wordsworth write Youth to Fortune