grayt.ead.0001-mss.0136Thomas 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.0136#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.pare[Parody on an Epitaph]Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff,1882Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 82Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 256-257
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.
mss.0136poems.pare[untitled][1767]1autograph fair copy63 mm x 197 mmMS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), f. 181r Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 25/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 112, 90Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
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."