Among Dyer's papers is a transcription that he describes as "P't of Gron'. Hill as 'twas wrote first in ye year 1716". It is a discursive work in decasyllabic couplets with little relation to the poem of that title published a decade later and might just as well have served as the basis of "The Country Walk". The first published version of his celebration of the hill was written in Pindarics and originally appeared in Richard Savage's miscellany. In the same year, after having received some acclaim, Dyer rewrote "Grongar Hill" in four-stressed octosyllabic couplets roughly modelled on those of Milton's "L'Allegro" and contrasting strongly with the version of pastoral in Alexander Pope's "Windsor Forest". Though the rhymes and grammar are uncertain, the poem was eventually to be accounted his best work and was recognised as a precursor of Romanticism. Dyer worked outside the trend of politically oriented work and kept his focus on the rural landscape, its colours and visual perspective, following his training as a painter.