Record ID:
448633
Accession number:
MA 14551.28
Created:
Place of production unknown, undated
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description:
1 item (1 page) ; 19.2 x 22.4 cm
Notes:
Poem is untitled; alternative title supplied from "The poetry of John Gray," an edited collection published in 1988.
Written in purple ink.
Originally accompanied a unidentified letter to Louÿs, per Fletcher 1988.
Summary:
Never formally published in Gray's lifetime, this four-line poem that evokes a stag hunt may allude to Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" given a reference to the Roman goddess of the hunt, Diana, and the use of the term "queynte", per Fletcher 1988.
Provenance:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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