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“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Inferred

InferredFuller does not name the poem; her phrase “the simple annals of the poor”, followed by “Milton”, echoes Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (“The short and simple annals of the poor”; “Some mute inglorious Milton”).

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“Study the simple annals of the poor, and you find there, only restricted and stifled by accident, Milton, Calderon, or Michel Angelo.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p221

Inferred Fuller does not name the poem; her phrase “the simple annals of the poor”, followed by “Milton”, echoes Gray’s ““Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”” (“The short and simple annals of the poor”; “Some mute inglorious Milton”).

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p221; page given is to the 1869 reprint.