grayt.ead.0001-mss.0142 Thomas Gray Manuscripts: An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive. Alexander Huber Thomas Gray Archive 2006 Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber, Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005- English grayt.ead.0001-mss.0142#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.pppo The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake, 1757 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 12-17 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 155-177

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.

 mss.0142 poems.pppo [untitled] [1?] February 1768 3 autograph, partial [motto, advertisement, and notes only] 324 mm x 200 mm Add. MS 38511, ff. 3r-4r Manuscripts Collection BLUK

MS catalogued by Alexander Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 04/11/2006.

 Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 118, 90 Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414

Autograph of the motto, advertisement, and notes to the poem, untitled but numbered 5. and identified on f. 3r as "5. The progress of Poesy, a Pindaric Ode", in MS instructions to Dodsley for the 1768 London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768.