Thomas Gray,a great master in poetry,is a sentimentalism poet with some classical traits and is regarded as the forerunner of Romanticism.

Bai Xianyong s novels are characterized with sentimentalism, which manifests itself through the solitude and melancholy on the part of the author in his novel creation, through the shared sense of crisis under the conflict between the Eastern and Western cultures, and through the author s concern with the fate of his characters.

This article studies the history of novels and compares them with the European sentimentalism,pointing out that only those works whose main content was sentimental mentality in nature can be called sentimental novels.

On the Perfect Combination of sentimentalism and Classicism——To Analyze Thomas Gray s Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard;