grayt.ead.0001-mss.0219Thomas 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.0219#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.0219poems.otadOde to Adversity1780[?]7transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on
Whatman paper180 mm x 110 mm
MS Add. 439, Poems section,
25-31
The ArchivesYMAR
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in The Archives, York Minster Library & Archives, on 27/02/2007.
Transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand, entitled
Ode to Adversity
(p. 25) (Ode. IV. [p. 27]). The
poem, which includes the motto in Greek and attribution
on the title page, is
part of a section called Poems, which is
separately paginated and has its own table of contents (p. 129), in a
volume entitled Gray's Poems. The book
carries the bookplate of Gray's friend and biographer William Mason.