Elegy written in a country churchyard

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1. tjradcliffeMar 2015
   Thomas Grey ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," with its lyric celebration of ordinary life, is arguably the greatest English poem).

   TS Elliot, on his good days (Prufrock counts as a good day, as do the Landscape poems. He oversteps in "The Waste Land".)

   Tennyson, when in the mood for melancholy.

   Robert Herrick, when in the mood for insouciance, contemplation and the poet's struggle.

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2. pratiksahaMar 2015
   Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc
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3. lordgrenvilleMay 2022
   I would guess that an AI's ability to write poetry passable as human-authored is inversely correlated with length. So good haikus - certainly; Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - never (before AGI).
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4. pjc50May 2021

     Full many a gem of purest ray serene  
     The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:  
     Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,  
     And waste its sweetness on the desert air.  
    
     Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast  
     The little tyrant of his fields withstood,  
     Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,  
     Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
   

   "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Gray https://www.bartleby.com/101/453.html

   (Ironically time itself has pushed Hampden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hampden out of the list of names that one may reasonably expect English people to recognise, while Milton and Cromwell still remain)

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