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"[Parody on an Epitaph]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.pare
    • Uniform Title: "[Parody on an Epitaph]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1882
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 82; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 256-257
    • Summary: Composed shortly after visiting the church at Appleby, c. 3 September 1767, while on a short tour of the Lake District with Thomas Wharton. First published, untitled, in Gosse, Gray (1882), 176.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0135 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 1 page, 162 mm x 101 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford, partial [2 lines]
      • Language: English
      • Location: Add. MS 32562, f. 1, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 90
      • Contents: Transcript, untitled but headed "Grays MSS (in Masons collection)", of a 2-line version beginning "She swept, she hissd, grew mellow & lookd gruff", in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, f. 1.

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