by Thomas Gray

The Romantics
Many critics feel that Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" helped to set the literary stage for the Romantic poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Find out more about the Romantic movement on this site by clicking on Prologue and the Introduction links. Do you identify more with neoclassic or romantic ideals? Why? Answer in the Web Links Activity Log.

Stoke Poges Memorial to Thomas Gray
View the monument erected in the churchyard at Stoke Poges to honor poet Thomas Gray. Write a short poem or inscription that could be added to the monument, sharing your response to Gray's poem or to the scene in the graveyard.