Poet Without a Name Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History

Henry Weinfield offers a new reading not only of theElegyitself but also of its place in English literary history. His central argument is that in Gray'sElegythe thematic constellation of poverty, anonymity, alienation, and unfulfilled potentialor what Weinfield calls the "problem of history"is fully articulated for the first time, and that, as a result, theElegyrepresents an important turning-point in the history of English poetry.Weinfield, Henry is the author of 'Poet Without a Name Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History' with ISBN 9780809316526 and ISBN 0809316528.