grayt.ead.0001-mss.0105Thomas 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.0105#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.odecOde on a Distant Prospect of Eton
CollegeYe distant spires, ye antique towers,1747Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 7-10Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 54-63
Written at Stoke Pogesc. August 1742 during one
of Gray's most
productive periods.
First published, anonymously, as a folio pamphlet by Dodsley, 30 May 1747.
mss.0105poems.odec[untitled][1?] February 17681autograph, partial [motto and notes only]324 mm x 200 mmAdd. MS 38511, f. 3r Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 04/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 90, 88Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
Autograph of the motto and notes to the poem, untitled but numbered 3.
and identified on f. 3r as "3. Ode, on a distant prospect of
Eton-College", in MS instructions to
Dodsley for the 1768London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February
1768. The notes were first published in the poem's
version in Poems (1768).