grayt.ead.0001-mss.0162Thomas 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.0162#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.stbeStanzas to Mr BentleyIn silent gaze the tuneful choir among,1775Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 98Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 152-155
Written probably in 1752 in recognition of
Richard Bentley's drawings for the 1753 edition, the publication of
which Horace Walpole was overseeing.
First published in Mason's
Memoirs (1775), 227-228.
mss.0162poems.stbe[?][after 1771]1transcript, in the hand of William Mason
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. III,
1107 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 134, 92Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
Transcript in the hand of William Mason, wanting the ends of ll.
26-28, in Gray's