"Stanzas to Mr Bentley"

• Archive Work ID: poems.stbe
• Uniform Title: "Stanzas to Mr Bentley" [e-text]
• First Line: In silent gaze the tuneful choir among,
• Language: English
• First Published: 1775
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 98; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 152-155
• Summary: Written probably in 1752 in recognition of Richard Bentley's drawings for the 1753 edition, the publication of which Horace Walpole was overseeing. First published in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 227-228.

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0162 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [?]
  • Date: [after 1771]
  • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript, in the hand of William Mason
  • Language: English
  • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1107, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
  • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 134, 92; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Mason, wanting the ends of ll. 26-28, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1107.
  • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.