Question

Who first published the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?

• A. Alexander Pope
• B. Thomas Gray
• C. Robert Dodsley
• D. Samuel Johnson

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Robert Dodsley

• Robert Dodsley published Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray in 1751.

• The elegy opens with the narrator musing in a graveyard at close of day; he speculates about the obscure lives of the villagers who lie buried and suggests that they may have been full of rich promise that was ultimately stunted by poverty or ignorance.

• The churchyard in the poem is believed to be that of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, which Gray visited often and where he now lies buried.