"Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid / Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire."
— Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Dodsley
Date
1751
Metaphor
"Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid / Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire."
Metaphor in Context
Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;
Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed,
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre
(pp. 125-6, ll. 45-8)
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;
Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed,
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre
(pp. 125-6, ll. 45-8)
Categories
Provenance
HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
At least 50 entries in ESTC (1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1759, 1762, 1763, 1769, 1771, 1772, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1782, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1799, 1800). [Counting translations, but not counting publications with Robert Blair's The Grave. Lonsdale reports on the popularity of poem: 12 editions by 1763. ]
See An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (London: printed for R. Dodsley; and sold by M. Cooper, 1751). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
See also texts at The Thomas Gray Archive, ed. Alexander Huber <Link>
Reading Roger Lonsdale's The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith (London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972). <Link to 1969 edition in LION>
Publication history in F.G. Stoke's edition of the Elegy (Oxford, 1929).
See An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (London: printed for R. Dodsley; and sold by M. Cooper, 1751). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
See also texts at The Thomas Gray Archive, ed. Alexander Huber <Link>
Reading Roger Lonsdale's The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith (London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972). <Link to 1969 edition in LION>
Publication history in F.G. Stoke's edition of the Elegy (Oxford, 1929).
Date of Entry
11/11/2003
Date of Review
06/22/2010
