He wrote a four line work about a "tusky boar" called "Caradoc" as well as a couplet comparing the "thrush" to the "wood lark.
He wrote a four line work about a "tusky boar" called "Caradoc" as well as a couplet comparing the "thrush" to the "wood lark." Prose works by him include the critical "Some Remarks on the Poems of John Lydgate" and an "Essay on Norman Architecture." He completed some lines on "the ghost of John Dennis" and his lesser known odes include works on some "Fatal Sisters," "The Descent of Odin," and "The Bard." This author of a Sonnet on the death of his friend, Richard West, is better known for another pair of Odes: one on "a distant prospect of Eton College" and the other on "the Death of a Favorite Cat" who had an accident. For ten points, identify this British poet best known for a 1751 poem that begins "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day," a work known as "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
He wrote a four line work about a "tusky boar" called "Caradoc" as well as a couplet comparing the "thrush" to the "wood lark.
Thomas {Gray}