"[Tophet]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.tapr
• Uniform Title: "[Tophet]" [e-text]
• First Line: Such Tophet was; so looked the grinning fiend
• Language: English
• First Published: 1769 (pr. 1783)
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 75; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 100-103
• Summary: 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.

5 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0163 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "Inscription on a portrait"
  • Date: [after 1771]
  • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Mason
  • Language: English
  • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1106, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
  • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 136, 92; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
  • Contents: Transcript of ll. 1-2, 5-8, 3-4 in the hand of William Mason, here entitled "Inscription on a portrait", with ll. 3-4 annotated "addition in the first Copy", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1106.
  • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0164 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [?]
  • Date: 26 November 1769
  • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Cole
  • Language: English
  • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/5/9, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
  • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 137, 92; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 31; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Cole, ll. 1-2, 5-8 beginning "Such Tophet was--so grinn'd the bawling Fiend", on an early state of Tyson's etching (before the text had been added), annotated by Cole on the recto "Mr. Etough, Rector of Therfeild in Hartfordshire, who had been a dissenting Teacher in a Barn at Debden at Essex, died in August 1757" and on the verso "Donum Mich Tyson Arm: & Collegii Corporis Chri Cantabr Socij Nov: 26.1769, Gulielmo Cole A: Mro".
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0165 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: 1769
  • Physical Description: 1 page, c. 245 mm x 180 mm; transcript in the hand of Michael Tyson
  • Language: English
  • Location: Add. MS 5817, f. 191r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 138, 92; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
  • Contents: Copy of Tyson's etching with the text, annotated "Gray". Above the sketch is an annotation by William Cole "Mr. Etough of Therfeild in Hartfordshire, obiit 1757", and on verso "Given to me by M^r. Tyson in Nov: 1769. W^m. Cole". Bound in a volume entitled History of King's College Cambridge, vol. IV, XVI, bequeathed by Rev. W. Cole.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0247 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Lines by ... on Mr. E___'s characature
  • Date: [between 1793 and c. 1800]
  • Physical Description: [1?] page, 240 mm x 180 mm (volume); transcript
  • Language: English
  • Location: "Manuscript Collection", M.a.182, 157, Manuscripts Collection, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., USA <http://www.folger.edu/>
  • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Microfilm Collection, FILM Fo. 2321, Microfilm of M.a.182, 1 microfilm reel : negative, 12:1, 12 feet ; 35 mm.
  • References: Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=36726>
  • Contents: 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.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0251 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [undated]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, c. 55 mm x 160 mm; transcript in an unidentified hand (6 lines)
  • Language: English
  • Location: Add. MS 11279, f. 17, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=111908>
  • Contents: Transcript (6 lines) in an unidentified hand, here beginning "Such Tophet was, so grinned the bawling fiend" and attributed above "By M^r Gray", in a quarto volume of miscellaneous pieces of poetry, entitled "Miscellaneous Poetry" and "presented by Rev. T. Crompton", written in the 18th and 19th centuries, to which the names of the respective authors are assigned.