Death by Elegy

Author Dick Gross has written about what he regards as the blockbuster of all elegies. It's called 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', and was written over 250 years ago in Britain by Thomas Gray, a man who was the sole surviving child of a family of twelve children, who grew up in a village where the burial ground was at the centre of village life, and where every death had meaning for the community as a whole.