Edward Jerningham
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Edward Jerningham was a poet who moved in high society during the second half of the 18th century. Born at the family home of Costessey Park in 1737, he died in London on 17 November 1812. A writer of
A print based on Samuel Drummond's portrait of Edward Jerningham dating from 1800
Jerningham's view of Tintern Abbey, a watercolour by J.M.W.Turner, 1794
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem's origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray's thoughts following t
Edward Jerningham
…the circle about Thomas Gray, although he never met the poet himself. However, like many at the time, he began by writing a close imitation of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard in "The Nunnery” (1762). Jerningham then followed it up in successive years with other poems on similar themes in which the connection with Gray's work…
First page of Dodsley's illustrated edition of Gray's Elegy with illustration by Richard Bentley
Thomas Gray, by John Giles Eccardt, 1747–48, National Portrait Gallery, London
Holograph manuscript of Gray's "Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard"
William Blake's watercolour illustration of the first stanza