grayt.ead.0001-mss.0088Thomas 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.0088#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.inawInscription for a Wood in a ParkἉζόμενος
πολύθηρον
ἑκηβόλου
ἄλσος
Ἀνάσσας,1775GreekStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 189 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 345 (with English
prose translation)
Written in May 1742.
First published, untitled but introduced as "an inscription for a
wood joining to a park of mine", in Mason's
Memoirs (1775), section III, letter X. Mason is the only source for this (probably
conflated)
letter,
dated [27 May 1742], in which Gray originally
sent the poem to Richard
West.
mss.0088poems.inawInscription for a Wood in a ParkMay 17421autograph fair copyGreek
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 278 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 74, 86Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 24