The poet without a name : Gray's Elegy and the problem of history

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Introduction

Popularity, resonance, originality: the question of evaluation

Structure and meaning: the formal problem of interpretation

A reading of Gray's Elegy

Gray's Elegy and the dissolution of the pastoral

Wordsworth and the reconstitution of the pastoral

Appendix A: Elegy written in a country church yard

Appendix B: Stanza's wrote in a country church-yard (The Eton Manuscript)