The Guardian

Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

"Gray's Elegy" is a poem that most older adults in the UK can quote, if only a few lines. In my ideal school curriculum, it would still be required reading. Musical, eloquent, moral, the "Elegy ...
Newsweek

Poetry: Mary Jo Bang’s Dark, Inspirational ‘Elegy’

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Once, years ago, I visited the home of a family whose son had died in ...
The Guardian

Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes

Sidney Keyes was a few weeks old when his mother died of peritonitis, and his father, Captain Reginald Keyes, returned with the child to his own father's house. SKK, commemorated in this week's poem ...
The Atlantic

How Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Wrote Her Father’s ‘Elegy’

Natasha Trethewey was named the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States in June, becoming the first Southerner to receive the honor since Robert Penn Warren, in 1986, and the first African-American ...