A+E Networks. In early April 1968, shock waves reverberated around the world with the news that U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Although One Hundred Years of Solitude has come to be considered one of, if not the, most influential Latin American texts of all time, the novel and Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez have both received occasional criticisms.
Elegy Moves Through the Centuries. In the mid- 1700s, British poet Thomas Gray wrote one of the most famous elegiac poems, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.' The following stanzas, written in iambic pentameter, demonstrate Gray's strong introspective mood, beginning on line 13: Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,