First Line: Uror io! veros at nemo credidit ignes:
Language: Latin
First Published: 1814
References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 141-142 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 308-309 (with English prose translation)
Summary: Written probably in 1737 or 1738 when Gray was translating other Italian verse by Tasso and Dante. First published in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 93.
Alternate Form:
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 56, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 23
Contents: Autograph fair copy, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 139.
Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.