Are there characteristics of the literature of sentiment and sensibility in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?

The poetry of sentiment or sensibility strives to evoke sympathy in the reader, thus prompting the reader to commiserate with the feelings of the speaker and his/her suffering, or to sympathize with the speaker's feelings for another person.  In Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," the speaker elicits the sympathy of the reader for the country rustics buried in a "Neglected spot" who are lost to the memory of the living.

In his elegiac poem, Thomas Gray employs sensibility, elevating emotional or intellectual reaction.  For, he appeals to the pity for the ploughman or poor whose "Chill Penury repressed their noble rage," preventing them from any glory.  In the village Hampden there lies buried some "mute inglorious Milton" or some "Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood."  Instead they "kept the noiseless tenor of their way" and were unrecognized.

Poetry of sentiment and sensibility seeks to manipulate the reader's emotions; it would seem that Gray's poem accomplishes this by arousing the reader's sympathies for the abandoned residents of a small country churchyard.