grayt.ead.0001-mss.0104Thomas 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.0104#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.odecOde on a Distant Prospect of Eton
CollegeYe distant spires, ye antique towers,1747Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 7-10Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 54-63
Written at Stoke Pogesc. August 1742 during one
of Gray's most
productive periods.
First published, anonymously, as a folio pamphlet by Dodsley, 30 May 1747.
mss.0104poems.odecOde. on a distant Prospect of Windsor, &
the adjacent CountryAugust 17423autograph fair copy, revised
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 278-279, 284
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 89, 87Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 24-25Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
Autograph fair copy, revised, here entitled
Ode. on a distant Prospect of Windsor, & the
adjacent Country and dated "at Stoke Aug: 1742", in
Gray's Commonplace Book, vol I, 278-279 and
continued on p. 284.