- Source: Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" is an 18th-century ode by Thomas Gray. It is composed of ten 10-line stanzas, rhyming ABABCCDEED, with the B lines and final D line in iambic trimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter. In this poem, Gray coined the phrase "Ignorance is bliss". It occurs in the final stanza of the poem:
References
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- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
- Thomas Gray
- Ignorance Is Bliss
- 1747 in poetry
- To the South Downs
- Harvard Classics
- James Kenneth Stephen
- 1748 in poetry
- John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
