grayt.ead.0001-mss.0087Thomas 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.0087#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt15In D[iem]: 29am
MaiiBella per Angliacos plusquam civilia campos1884LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 125-127 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 296-297 (with English
prose translation)
Composed as an undergraduate exercise at Cambridge,
possibly in 1735.
First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 166.
mss.0087poems.lt15In D[iem]: 29am
Maii[1735?]2autograph fair copyLatin GBR/1058/GRA/4/2 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel two
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 73, 86Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 32Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415