talk about its 20th century response ?
Critics believed that the poem's use of sound and tone made it great.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Critics at the beginning of the 20th century believed that the poem's use of sound and tone made it great. 
who were among the famous graduates of eton mentioned in gray's elegy George Orwell, Karl Marx what is this ? Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem who wrote it ? Thomas Gray what is the theme of it ? The poem connects with many earlier British poems that contemplate death and seek to make it more familiar and tame
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [SEP] 20th-century response
Critics at the beginning of the 20th century believed that the poem's use of sound and tone made it great. The French critic Louis Cazamian claimed in 1927 that Gray "discovered rhythms, utilised the power of sounds, and even created evocations. The triumph of this sensibility allied to so much art is to be seen in the famous "Elegy", which from a somewhat reasoning and moralizing emotion has educed a grave, full, melodiously monotonous song, in which a century weaned from the music of the soul tasted all the sadness of eventide, of death, and of the tender musing upon self." I.