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"[Translation] From Tasso [Gerusalemme Liberata] Canto 14, Stanza 32-9."

    • Archive Work ID: poems.trgl
    • Uniform Title: "[Translation] From Tasso [Gerusalemme Liberata] Canto 14, Stanza 32-9." [e-text]
    • First Line: Dismissed at length, they break through all delay
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1814
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 58-60; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 21-23
    • Summary: Written in 1737 when Gray was translating other Italian verse by Dante and Petrarch and sent in a letter to Richard West, [22 May 1737]. First published in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 90-92.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0171 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "From Tasso. Canto, 14, Stanza, 32"
      • Date: 1738
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy, revised
      • Language: English
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 95-96, 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 143, 93; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 137
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, revised, translation from Gerusalemme Liberata, headed "From Tasso. Canto, 14, Stanza, 32" in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 95-96.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0172 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [22 May 1737]
      • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph
      • Language: English
      • Location: Manuscript Collections, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 144, 93; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 37*, vol. iii, 1315-1319
      • Contents: Autograph, here untitled, in a letter to Richard West, [22 May 1737].

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