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"Inscription for a Wood in a Park"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.inaw
    • Uniform Title: "Inscription for a Wood in a Park" [e-text]
    • First Line: Ἁζόμενος πολύθηρον ἑκηβόλου ἄλσος Ἀνάσσας,
    • Language: Greek
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 189 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 345 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written in May 1742. First published, untitled but introduced as "an inscription for a wood joining to a park of mine", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section III, letter X. Mason is the only source for this (probably conflated) letter, dated [27 May 1742], in which Gray originally sent the poem to Richard West.

    1 Manuscript:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0088 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Inscription for a Wood in a Park"
      • Date: May 1742
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Greek
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 278, 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 74, 86; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 24
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 278.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

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