grayt.ead.0001-mss.0247Thomas 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.0247#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.tapr[Tophet]Such Tophet was; so looked the grinning fiend1769 (pr. 1783)Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 75Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 100-103
Written c. 1749 under a
sketch of the Rev. Henry Etough drawn by William Mason.
First published, ll. 1-2, 5-8, as
On Mr.
E---'s being ordained and beginning "Such Tophet was--so
grum'd the bawling Fiend", in The London
Magazine 52 (June 1783), 296. The text, ll. 1-2, 5-8, was
also issued on an etching by Michael Tyson of the drawing of Tophet by
Mason, 1769.
mss.0247poems.taprLines by ... on Mr. E___'s characature[between 1793 and c. 1800][1?]transcript240 mm x 180 mm (volume)"Manuscript Collection",
M.a.182, 157
Manuscripts Collection FOLG
Microfilm copy available in Microfilm Collection, FILM Fo. 2321,
Microfilm of M.a.182, 1 microfilm reel : negative, 12:1, 12 feet ; 35 mm.
Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare
Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=36726>
Transcript, here beginning "Such E___ was, so grinn'd the
brawling fiend", in a volume entitled
Manuscript Collection, a miscellaneous collection in
prose and verse in which are included several original pieces 1793 ...
Vol. I (97 leaves), compiled by A. S. W.