"The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode"

• Archive Work ID: poems.pppo
• Uniform Title: "The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode" [e-text]
• First Line: Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake,
• Language: English
• First Published: 1757
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 12-17; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 155-177
• Summary: Begun not earlier than September 1751 and completed by December 1754 when Gray sent the poem in a letter to Thomas Wharton, dated 26 December 1754. First published, as "Ode." in Odes by Mr. Gray (1757), 5.

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0262 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: July/August 1827
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 191 mm x 125 mm (volume); transcript, partial, in the hand of William Pitter Woodhouse
  • Language: English
  • Location: Houghton MS Keats 3.13, vol. i, f. 80v, John Keats Collection (MS Keats 1-6), The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
  • References: Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=36732>
  • Contents: Transcript of the poem, partial, beginning "Thoughts that breathe and words that burn", in the hand of William Pitter Woodhouse, in his Commonplace book of verse and prose by various authors, July-August 1827, vol. i (82 leaves), f. 80v.