Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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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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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Illustrated English poems / ed. by Ernest Rhys |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Illustrated by | R. W. A. Rouse |
| Publisher | Guild of Women-Binders, 1899 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 49 pages |
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