Excerpt from Elegy: Written in a Country Churchyard In 1742 Gray wrote his Ode to Spring, Ode on Eton College, and Hymns to Adversity, and began the Elegy in a Country Church yard, though the latter was not pub lished until 1751. In 1753 his mother died. Two years later the Progress of Poesy and The Bard were published, and added to the already great reputation won for the poet by the Elegy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.