Returning to Eton: Writing History and Temporality in Thomas Gray's "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College".

The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" by Thomas Gray. Topics discussed include lamenting for the lost childhood from the perspective of author's adult self, different modes of constituting history such as natural laws and empirical inquiry, and troubling the exemplar model as an adequate mode of representing subjectivity.