" For 10 points, name the 18th century poet of "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat" and "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
One critic noted that this writer attempted to widen the separation between prose and metrical composition, citing the lines "I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear,/And weep the more because I weep in vain" from this author's "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West." He asks "what female heart can gold despise" in a poem describing the death of the pensive (*) Selima before concluding "nor all that glisters gold." His most famous work includes the lines "Here rests his head upon the lap of earth /A youth to fortune and to fame unknown" in "The Epitaph" and opens "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day." For 10 points, name the 18th century poet of "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat" and "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
One critic noted that this writer attempted to widen the separation between prose and metrical composition, citing the lines "I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear,/And
Thomas Gray