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"[Parody on an Epitaph]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.pare
    • Uniform Title: "[Parody on an Epitaph]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1882
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 82; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 256-257
    • Summary: Composed shortly after visiting the church at Appleby, c. 3 September 1767, while on a short tour of the Lake District with Thomas Wharton. First published, untitled, in Gosse, Gray (1882), 176.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0136 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1767]
      • Physical Description: 1 page, 63 mm x 197 mm; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), f. 181r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 112, 90; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, on a slip of paper annotated in the hand of Thomas Wharton "Extempore Epitaph on Ann Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery, made by Mr. Gray on reading the Epitaph on her mothers tomb in the Church at Appleby composed by the Countess, in the same manner."

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