[30] "Life of Collins."
[31] Essay on "Pope."
[32] Mr. Perry enumerates, among English imitators, Falconer, T. Warton, James Graeme, Wm. Whitehead, John Scott, Henry Headly, John Henry Moore, and Robert Lovell, "Eighteenth Century Literature," p. 391. Among foreign imitations Lamartine's "Le Lac" is perhaps the most famous.
[33] "Mason's Works," Vol. I. p. 179.
[34] Ibid., Vol. I. p. 114.
[35] Cf. Keats' unfinished poem, "The Eve of St. Mark,"
[36] Parnell's collected poems were published in 1722.
[37] Not the least interesting among the progeny of Gray's "Elegy" was "The Indian Burying Ground" of the American poet, Philip Freneau (1752-1832). Gray's touch is seen elsewhere in Freneau, e.g., in "The Deserted Farm-house."
"Once in the bounds of this sequestered room
Perhaps some swain nocturnal courtship made:
Perhaps some Sherlock mused amid the gloom,
Since Love and Death forever seek the shade."
[38] Spectator, No. 489.