Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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User Review - keylawk - LibraryThingReprint of what may once have been one of the most familiar poems in English from the 18th century. At a time when few could read in England, one of its most educated sons, and the companion of Horace ... Read full review
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