Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems (Penguin English Journeys) - Softcover

Gray, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141190833 ISBN 13: 9780141190839

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on mortality, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard', the soaring beauty of Wordsworth's lines on Tintern Abbey and Keats's ode to Autumn, the deceptively simple words of Emily Brontė and the personal and evocative verse of Thomas Hardy, bringing together the greatest riches of English poetry.

Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

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Charles Cotton ~ Alexander Pope ~ James Thomson ~ Thomas Gray ~ Oliver Goldsmith ~ William Cowper ~ William Wordsworth ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~ John Clare ~ John Keats ~ Emily Brontė ~ Thomas Hardy ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins ~ Edward Thomas

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ENGLISH JOURNEYS
Number 6
Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard and Other Poems

The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on mortality, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard', the soaring beauty of Wordsworth's lines on Tintern Abbey and Keats's ode to Autumn, the deceptively simple words of Emily Brontė and the personal and evocative verse of Thomas Hardy, bringing together the greatest riches of English poetry.

Charles Cotton • Alexander Pope • James Thomson • Thomas Gray • Oliver Goldsmith • William Cowper • William Wordsworth • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • John Clare • John Keats • Emily Brontė • Thomas Hardy • Gerard Manley Hopkins • Edward Thomas

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141190833
• ISBN 13: 9780141190839
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 128