Gray's Elegy and Goldsmith's The Deserted Village The Traveller and Other Poems

Gray and Goldsmith were contemporaries. Born in the so-called Age of Pope both lived well into the period of English letters dominated by Samuel Johnson. The works of both give indications of the dawning romanticism which was to result in the period of Wordsworth and Scott. Both were writers of fluent and admirable prose as well as poets. And there are some personal resemblances...