Books that mention Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (4)
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett: “Elegy in a Country Churchyard sort of thing?”
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “Gray’s “Elegy,” which Lincoln quoted in his small autobiography to explain his attitude toward his childhood poverty, asserts that “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen/And waste its swee[tness on the desert air]””
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote: “Andrews' farewell message turned out to be the ninth stanza of Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard': The boasts of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r...”
Beef and Potatoes by Kunikida Doppo: “A poet? Why yes, in those days I was a poet. I used to love reading the translation of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, the one that begins 'Yamayama kasumi iriai no', and write verses of my own. Compared with today's new-style poets I'm a veteran, you know. [auto-translated]”