"Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul."
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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 <u>The Grave</u>. Lonsdale reports on the popularity of poem: 12 editions by 1763. ]<br>
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See <u>An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard</u> (London: printed for R. Dodsley; and sold by M. Cooper, 1751). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004844178.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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See also texts at <u>The Thomas Gray Archive</u>, ed. Alexander Huber &lt;<a href="http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc">Link</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Roger Lonsdale's <u>The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith</u> (London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z200382246:2">Link to 1969 edition in LION</a>&gt;<br>
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Publication history in F.G. Stoke's edition of the <u>Elegy</u> (Oxford, 1929).