Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Collector's Edition)
$33.19
- Hardcover
88 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2021
Summary
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: A Collector’s Edition
The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day…
Thomas Gray’s 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 an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781851245772 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1851245774 |
| Author: | Thomas Gray, Agnes Miller Parker, Carol Rumens |
| Publisher: | Bodleian Library |
| Imprint: | Bodleian Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 88 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 334g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 148mm |
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About The Author
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) is best known for Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Born in London, he spent much of his adult life in Cambridge, eventually becoming Professor of Modern History there. He is buried in the churchyard of St Giles, Stoke Poges, the setting for his poem.
Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980) was one of the greatest British wood engraving artists of the twentieth century. Parker was influenced by the art of Wyndham Lewis and the Cubist and Vorticist movements which flourished in the period between the wars.
Carol Rumens’s most recent poetry collections are The Mixed Urn (Sheep Meadow Press, USA, 2019) and Bezdelki: Small Things (the Emma Press, UK) which won the Michael Marks Award for Best Pamphlet in 2018.
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