Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Versions of
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750)
by Thomas Gray

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First published in 1751, as 'An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard', the title was changed to the more familiar "written in" for the eighth edition, published in 1753. [Based on A Bibliography of Thomas Gray (1917), by Clark Sutherland Northup, pp. 74-75.]

4175504Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardThomas Gray (1716-1771)

Versions of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard include:

"An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard" (1751)
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1776), a version, along with an Italian translation, published in Verona
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", in Poems That Every Child Should Know (1904), edited by Mary Elizabeth Burt