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Episode 100: Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

This episode takes us to a graveyard for Halloween and explores one of the most canonical poems in the English language, poised between two huge eras of poetry as it meditates on.

October 29, 2025
34:53
Season:
7
18th century elegy grief and loss melancholy night rhymed verse

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