Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard nearing, Gray questioned if his own life would enter into a sort of rebirth cycle or, should he die, if there would be anyone to remember him. Gray's meditations during spring 1750 turned to how individuals' reputations would survive. Eventually, Gray remembered some lines of poetry that he composed in 1742 following the death of West, a poet he knew. Using that previous material, he began to compose a poem that would serve as an answer to the various questions he was pondering. On 3 June 1750, Gray moved to Stoke Poges, and on 12 June he completed "Elegy Written
A Treatise on Poetry annual "Kultura" literary prize. Miłosz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 for his literary works. In 2001, Miłosz, who was pleased by the renewed appreciation of the "Treatise" following its English translation, said. "It has been a great pleasure to see my poem apparently not getting old... I am proud of having written a poem that deals with historical, political and aesthetic issues." A Treatise on Poetry A Treatise on Poetry () is book-length poem in Polish by Nobel Prize-winning poet Czesław Miłosz on Polish literature, poetry and history from 1900 to 1949. Written in 1955 and 1956,