'Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray' – These lines are written by -

• 'Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray' – These lines are written by - Thomas Gray.- লাইনটি Thomas Gray-এর লেখা Elegy written in the Country Churchyard নামক কবিতা থেকে নেওয়া হয়েছে।- Iambic pentameter quatrains এ লেখা এই কবিতাটি ১৭৫১ সালে প্রকাশিত হয়।- It exhibits the gentle melancholy that is characteristic of the English poets of the graveyard school of the 1740s and ’50s.- A meditation on unused human potential, the conditions of country life, and mortality, An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard is one of the best-known elegies in the language.• The Age of Sensibility এর বিখ্যাত কবি Thomas Gray is known as a Graveyard poet.• His famous quotations:- Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.- The paths of glory lead but to grave.**** উল্লেখ্য যে, Far from the madding crowd নামে Thomas Hardy-এর একটি উপন্যাস আছে।Source: Britannica and SparksNotes.