Jack Watkins considers the timeless brilliance of Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.’
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Thomas Gray may no longer be the most famous name in British poetry, but if any lines of 18th-century verse still quoted in the 21st century can be expected to draw even the vaguest nods of recognition, several of his surely qualify. ‘Where Ignorance is bliss/’Tis folly to be wise,’ from Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton…
