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Arrange the following elegies in English in chronological order.

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    An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, meditative poem written in iambic pentameter quatrains by Thomas Gray, published in 1751.
    A meditation on unused human potential, the conditions of country life, and mortality, An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard is one of the best-known elegies in the language. It exhibits the gentle melancholy that is characteristic of the English poets of the graveyard school of the 1740s and ‘50s. The poem contains some of the best-known lines of English literature, notably “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen” and “Far from the madding Crowd‘s ignoble Strife.”
    Adonais was published in 1821 just after Keats death, who died in Rome at the tender age of 25, so the poem was subtitled “An Elegy on the Death of John Keats…” He was defined by Shelley in his Preface as “to be classed among the writers of the highest genius who have adorned our age”.
    Adonais comes from Adonis, the mythological character who was eternally young and who symbolizes death and the renovation of nature. He was the beautiful youth loved by Venus and killed by a wild boar.
    In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850) is the extended, fragmentary elegy that Tennyson wrote for his closest friend Arthur Henry Hallam, after Hallam‘s sudden death at age 22. Scholars agree that this was the most important event in Tennyson‘s life, and the one which most shaped his work. In Memoriam combines the expression of a deeply personal experience of intense male friendship and mourning with discussions of public concerns, including major debates of the day about science and religion.
    Thyrsis, elegiac poem by Matthew Arnold, first published in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1866. It was included in Arnold‘s New Poems in 1867. It is considered one of Arnold‘s finest poems.
    In Thyrsis Arnold mastered an intricate 10-line stanza form. The 24-stanza poem eulogizes his friend, poet Arthur Hugh Clough, who had died in 1861. Arnold portrays Clough as Thyrsis, a traditional Greek name for a shepherd-poet. In rich pastoral imagery, Arnold recalls the Oxford countryside the two explored as students in the 1840s and reviews the fate of their youthful ideals after they left the university.

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