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 |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Illustrated by | Julius J. Lankes |
| Contributor | Robert Peter Tristram Coffin |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1940 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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