The bulletin

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NX 252
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Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
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Vol. 63 No. 3257 (15 Jul 1942)
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The Bulletin  

“The Bulletin, J> VoL 63.—N0. 3257.  

’M IE A/JO  

July 15, 1942.  

Price 6d.  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as Newspaper.  

Jeppelts  

ROYAL  

PURPLE PARA  

TOKE POGES CHURCHYARD, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.  

WHEREVER the English tongue is spoken the  

little Churchyard of Stoke Poges must be  

very hallowed ground. Here repose the mortal  

remains of Thomas Gray, two of whose poems  

“Elegy in Country Churchyard” and “Ode on  

Distant Prospect of Eton College”—will endure  

so long as the language itself. The “Elegy is  

the more widely known. It was after its publica-  

tion, under somewhat curious circumstances in  

1751 Gray was at once raised to foremost place  

among English poets, position the passing of  

the years has not affected. Gray, besides being  

great poet, was scholar of the highest attain-  

ments. Witness, for instance, his last publication  

(1765) of some paraphrases from Gaelic and  

Icelandic sources. The year before he had been  

offered, but declined, the laureateship. The  

appearance of his paraphrases was contempo-  

raneous with his appointment as Professor of  

Modern Literature and Modern Languages at  

Cambridge University. The charm, magic and  

popularity of Gray’s work may be said to have  

their foundations in some of his simplest efforts  

—those on his old Eton playground and the  

“Elegy,” in which in all revisions he sought to bind  

its simple harmony with the themes. The late Dr.  

Henry Morley pointed out how Gray expunged  

classicism:  

“In one familiar stanza he put Hampden in  

the place of Gracchus, or some other ancient  

worthy. Milton and Cromwell for Tully and  

Caesar improved the lines —  

‘Some mute inglorious Tully here may rest,  

Some Caesar guiltless of his country’s blood.  

The first stanza of the “Elegy” is familiar to every  

schoolboy and -girl, beginning “The curfew tolls  

the knell of parting day.” In the “Distant Pros-  

pect” are lines which have given us familiar  

proverb:  

“Where ignorance is bliss  

Tis folly to be wise.”  

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