Thomas Gray has sometimes been classified as a pre-Romantic writer. Romantic writers valued emotional experience over logical arguments, nature and common people over organized society, and imagination over reason. What evidence from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" supports Gray's classification as a pre-Romantic? Your response should be at least one paragraph long.

Based on the sections I would say that Anglo-Saxon poetry seems deal with directly handling the human condition as opposed to Renaissance poems which explore the creative and experimental side of human nature through more abstract ideas like nostalgia, imagination and emotion.

To take this further you could also say that the Anglo-Saxon period would be the study of mans qualities within what is to be considered the social norm of the time. Renaissance poetry in a slightly different way examines man potential against the social norm in an effort to transcend it.