grayt.ead.0001-mss.0169Thomas 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.0169#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.tra9[Translation from Statius, Thebaid IX 319-26]Crenaeus, whom the nymph Ismenis bore1915Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 57-58Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 277
Written probably as a school exercise at Eton between 1725 and 1734, possibly Gray's
earliest composition in English.
First published in Toynbee
(ed.), Correspondence (1915), vol. ii,
299-300 with a facsimile.
mss.0169poems.tra9[untitled][between 1725 and
1734]1autograph draft, partial [ll. 1-13] GBR/1058/GRA/4/3 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel two. Facsimile in Toynbee
(ed.), Correspondence (1915), vol. ii,
following
p. 298
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 141, 93Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 33Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 57n
Autograph draft of ll. 1-13, here untitled, together with MS 0170.