grayt.ead.0001-mss.0278Thomas 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.0278#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.0278poems.elccStanzas wrote in a churchyard in the country[before 1805][?]transcript
290mm x 230mm (volume)
fc.51, 291
Osborn Collection Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library YALEParks, Stephen et al. (ed.), Osborn
Collection First-Line Index. New Haven: Beinecke Library, Yale
University, 2005, 760, item T0441Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare
Library. 23 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=10641>
Transcript, entitled
Stanzas wrote in a churchyard in the country,
in the Frances
Boscawen and Julia EvelynCommonplace Book,
a collection of
verse by various authors and some original verse, contains about 100
poems copied by the authors, beginning in 1746.