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Afternoon Play: Gray's Elegy

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By Stephen Wyatt. How far did a passionate quarrel with Horace Walpole , son of the famous prime minister, influence Thomas Gray 's much-loved poem, Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard, first published nearly 250 years ago? The argument occurred on a grand
European tourthe two were taking- but what was the quarrel really about and did the relationship with Walpole deeply affect Gray's thinking?
Director Martin Jenkins

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Wyatt.
Unknown:
Horace Walpole
Unknown:
Thomas Gray
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Thomas:
Michael Maloney
Horace:
Anton Lesser
Richard:
Robert Harper
Henry, Earl of Lincoln:
Nicholas Boulton
Source: Radio Times

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