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ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD
by Gray, Thomas
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New Castle, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1960. full leather with gilt lettering on front cover. miniature, 6 x 4.2 cm. full leather with gilt lettering on front cover. 45+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies (Bradbury, St. Onge 17). Bound by Proost and Brandt, Amsterdam and printed letterpress by Enschede. Originally published in 1751, the Elegy was immediately popular and still remains one of the best known English lyric poems. The ode to a humble grave employed a high form of poetry, the elegy in classical diction. In it, Gray mourned the death of all men, including the poet. Though Thomas Gray (1716-1771) did not produce a hefty corpus, he was a dominant poetic figure in the eighteenth century and is considered a precursor to the Romantic movement. Frontispiece portrait of Gray. Printed in olive, as are the four illustrations in the text.
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- Bookseller
- Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78852
- Title
- ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD
- Author
- Gray, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Full leather with gilt lettering on front cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Achille J. St. Onge
- Place of Publication
- Worcester
- Date Published
- 1960
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