grayt.ead.0001-mss.0277Thomas 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.0277#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.0277poems.elccAn elegy written in a country churchyard[between 1766 and 1800][?]transcript in the hand of James Forbes
fc.132, vol. I, 30
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=10630>
Transcript, entitled
An elegy written in a country churchyard,
in James
Forbes' Commonplace book,
1766-1800, vol. I "Poems on Several Occasions Collected
from Different Authors", a manuscript of a collection of approximately
150 poems and excerpts, primarily epitaphs and elegies, poems in praise
of virtues, odes dedicated to women, and poems on nature and weather.