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Visitors hear more about Gray's monument.
PICNICS and music will celebrate the birth of Thomas Gray, the poet who wrote Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard on 9 July. During the afternoon the Bishop of Buckingham, the Rt Revd Alan Wilson, will unveil the new Thomas Gray Landscape Welcome Board, installed by the National Trust.
Bishop Alan said: "Gray's Elegy is one of the great poems of the English language.
Succeeding generations since 1751 have learned it and revelled in its tender, rich and thoughtful web of words.
I am very much looking forward to being in Stoke Poges to capture its spirit on this 300th anniversary of the poet's birth. " The Stoke Poges Village Gray Celebration will start at 12 noon with picnics and music at Gray's Monument, Church Lane, Stoke Poges SL2 4NZ.