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"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:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0138 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ode, in the Greek manner"
      • Date: [1754?]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph, revised
      • Language: English
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. II, 727-728, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • 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 114, 90; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 28; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 145
      • Contents: Autograph, revised, here entitled "Ode, in the Greek manner", the first line altered from "Awake my Lyre, my Glory, wake" to the first line as published, including an alternative version of five of the last six lines, and annotated "Finish'd in 1754. printed together with the Bard, an Ode. Aug: 8. 1757", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. II, 727-728.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

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