 The pamphlet contained woodblock illustrations and was printed without attribution to Gray , at his request . Immediately after , Owen 's magazine with Gray 's poem was printed but contained multiple errors and other problems . In a 20 February letter to Walpole , Gray thanked him for intervening and helping to get a quality version of the poem published before Owen . It was so popular that it was reprinted twelve times and reproduced in many different periodicals until 1765 , including in Gray 's Six Poems ( 1753 ) , in his Odes ( 1757 ) , and in Volume IV of Dodsley 's 1755 compilation of poetry . The revised version of 1768 was that later printed . 
