grayt.ead.0001-mss.0041Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0041#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.elccElegy Written in a Country
ChurchyardThe curfew tolls the knell of parting day,1751Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 37-43Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 103-141
Begun c. 1745 and completed
early in June 1750 at Stoke Poges.
Gray sent the poem
in a letter to
Horace
Walpole dated 12 June 1750.
First published, as An Elegy wrote in a Country Church
Yard and printed by Dodsley, in 1751.
mss.0041poems.elccStanzas Written in a Country
Church Yard[not later than 1794]5transcript in an unidentified hand 315 mm x 196 mmAdd. MS 36270, ff. 77-79r Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 04/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 82Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414Northup, Bibliography (1917), item 1997Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare
Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=138995>
Transcript in an unidentified hand, entitled
Stanzas Written in a Country Church Yard,
in a volume entitled Hardwicke Papers,
vol. DCCCCXXII.