References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 151-152 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 317-318 (with English prose translation)
Summary:Gray wrote this poem in the album of the monastery of the Grande Chartreuse on this second visit on 21 August 1741, during his journey from Turin to Lyon, when he was returning alone from the Grand Tour. First published, as "Ode", in Mason'sMemoirs (1775), 117-118. MS translation into English by Thomas Wharton.
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 79; Northup, Bibliography (1917), item 1997
Contents: Transcript, entitled "Gray's Ode on visiting The Grand Chartreuse – written in The Album of the Fathers", in the hand of Joseph Hunter, in a volume prefaced "Silva Poetica" (1807).