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[Verse Fragments]

    • Archive Work ID: poems.vsfr
    • Uniform Title: [Verse Fragments] [e-text]
    • First Line: Gratitude
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1890
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 196; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 277-278
    • Summary: Written probably in 1754, copied by William Mason from Gray's pocketbook for that year. First published, among "Thoughts and Verse Fragments", in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 269-270.

    1 Manuscript:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0193 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1754]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Mason
      • Language: English
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1110, 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 165, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Mason, 12 lines beginning "Gratitude/ The Joy that trembles in her eye", within the "Extract from Mr Gray's Pocket Books... 1754", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1110.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

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