Poetry For All

Episode 100: Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

October 29th, 2025  |  Season 7  |  34 mins 53 secs

18th century, elegy, grief and loss, melancholy, night, rhymed verse

This episode takes us to a graveyard for Halloween and explores one of the most canonical poems in the English language, poised between two huge eras of poetry as it meditates on how "the paths of glory lead but to the grave."