elegy written in a country churchyard with line numbers

Poole/L. On 1 Dec. 1773 Walpole wrote to Mason: 'The Churchyard was, I am persuaded, posterior to West's death at least three or four years, as you will see by my note. "This line, which soon became [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. Whibley, 1950 [1st ed. Skeat believes that wistful stands for wishful, the change in form being due to confusion with wistly, which was itself a corruption of the Middle-English wisly, certainly, verily, exactly. In the winter of 1749, after the death of his aunt, Mary Antrobus, Gray resumed it at Cambridge, and finished it at Stoke early in June, 1750; and on the 12th of that month he sent a copy of it in MS. to Horace Walpole, who circulated it among his friends. - Mason MS." E. Gosse, 1884.

Expanding the poem lines () shows notes and queries taken from various critical editions of Gray's works, as well as those contributed by users of the Archive. Accordingly, in his notes, Mason, Poems pp.

iv.

1891]. "the reference is to the heath mentioned in the rejected stanza which came after line 100.". "''how glad would lay me down / As in my mother's lap.'' "These two stanzas are now inscribed on the large and unsightly memorial to Gray, which stands close by the church-yard in Stoke Park.". - 29, 30.". Spenser, Faerie Queene V v 37, 1: 'uncouth speach', and VI viii 18, 4: 'uncouth words'; and Philips, Cyder Bk ii: 'uncouth Rhythms'.". 12.1-3 Molest ... ancient] "& pry into written above [...]" H.W. Cf. "Cp. Mason says of this 'redbreast' stanza: 'Between this line [l. 116] and the Epitaph, Mr. Gray originally inserted a very beautiful stanza, which was printed in some of the first editions, but afterwards omitted; because he thought (and in my own opinion very justly) that it was too long a parenthesis in this place.

Annus Mirabilis 1021-4, a quatrain which G[ray].

Het werd voor het eerst gepubliceerd in 1750, al had Gray er al sinds 1742 aan gewerkt.

50.9 unroll;] "The image is of a [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. He made a few comments on it in a letter to Christopher Anstey, who published a Latin translation of the poem in 1762 (Corresp ii 748-9) but otherwise tended to be cynical about its celebrity.

- Mason MS." E. Gosse, 1884. 1891].

's time. 295.".

See also Pope, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady 49-51, where the 'pious' acts are done by 'foreign hands'.". Hendrickson, 1966. "Wrote   Eton, with Graved carved written above.".

1891].

1898]. "Probably a reference to West." "'There has always appeared to me a vicious mixture of the figurative with the real in this admired passage. 1919]. 30.2 homely] "rustic   Eton." 79.7 decked,] "Deckt. - Original MS. [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. Gray makes these contractions to make the number … "After this line Eton has   There scatter'd oft, the earliest   deleted; see 116 n below.". "On the high Brow of [...]" H.W. 20.4 rouse] "wake first edition." "It seems unnecessary to quote from the literature of all ages in illustration of this and like commonplaces of poetry. "Cp. 'And pore upon the brook that babbles by. 1.7 parting] "dying Gray's first thought, as [...]" A.L.

"Lycidas 25-6: 'ere the high Lawns appear'd / Under the opening eye-lids of the morn'; and L'Allegro 92: 'up-land Hamlets'.". G. himself described with mixed feelings the success of the MS circulation of the Elegy when he sent a copy to his friend Thomas Wharton on 18 Dec. 1750 (Corresp i 335): 'the Stanza's, wch I now enclose to you, have had the Misfortune by Mr W:s Fault to be made still more publick, for wch they certainly were never meant, but it is too late to complain, they have been so applauded it is quite a Shame to repeat it. Mason delighted to pose as Gray's literary confrere and adviser; and when we remember that he was capable of inserting in his version of Gray's letters compliments to himself which never came from Gray, we must accept such statements of his, particularly those which refer to this early stage of the friendship between the two men, with great caution. 157), Gray had asked that the poem be printed 'without any Interval between the Stanza's because the Sense is in some Places continued beyond them' (this was done in Q1 although the first line of each stanza was indented), he does not seem to have repeated this request for B and P[oems, 1768]; he either had overlooked the issue or had concluded that that closing up the intervals was not necessary or desirable.

"At the bottom of the [...]" H.W. "[v. 4 of omitted stanza:] [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed.

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