grayt.ead.0001-mss.0287Thomas 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.0287#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.0287poems.odecOde on a distant prospect of Eton College[before 1805][?]transcript
290mm x 230mm (volume)
fc.51, 202
Osborn Collection Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library YALEParks, Stephen et al. (ed.), Osborn
Collection First-Line Index. New Haven: Beinecke Library, Yale
University, 2005, 1075, item Y0034Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare
Library. 23 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=10639>
Transcript, entitled
Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College,
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.