Elegy was completed in 1750 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, where Gray’s mother and aunt had lived for a number of years, and where he spent his summers, regularly attending Sunday services at St ...

In a 1936 news item looking back at the origin of the cemetery's name, The Knoxville News-Sentinel noted, "Sixty years ago, Gray's Elegy was a favorite poem in the homes and schools. It was a ...