grayt.ead.0001-mss.0122Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0122#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.otadOde to AdversityDaughter of Jove, relentless power,1753Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 10-11Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 68-74
Completed at Stoke Poges by August 1742 and sent in a letter to
Horace
Walpole, 8 September [1751].
First published, as
Hymn to
Adversity, in Dodsley'sDesigns (1753), [24].
mss.0122poems.otadOde. To AdversityAugust 17422autograph fair copy
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 284-285
College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 103, 89Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 25Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
Autograph fair copy, revised, here entitled
Ode. To Adversity and annotated "at
Stoke, Aug. 1742", including two mottoes in Greek from Aeschylus,
in Gray's Commonplace
Book, vol. I, 284-285.