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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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(written 1742–50, published 1751) The name commonly used for the Elegy written in a Country Church Yard by Thomas *Gray, one of the most often quoted of English poems. The gentle pastoral melancholy of the verses, imagining the innocent unknown country people in their graves, made the poem an instant and lasting success. It is generally assumed that the churchyard was that of Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire, where Gray himself was later buried.
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