SOURCE: Hutchings, W. “Syntax of Death: Instability in Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” Studies in Philology 81, no. 4 (1984): 496-514.
In the following essay, Hutchings attempts to demonstrate that the ambiguous syntax used by Gray when referring to death creates much uncertainty for the reader.
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