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1 Pulchra Caietae speculantis altum
2 busta Tyrrhenum tepidisque pulchrae
3     Formiae litus Zephyris, et arva
4         nota Lyaeo

5 unde mirantes oculi per aequor
6 vitreum late pelagi feruntur
7     icta dum pura tremulum refulgent
8         marmora luna;

9 sed nec [...] mihi pulchriores
10 Vinsorae clivis Thamesisque longis
11     flexibus pleno virides secantis
12         flumine ripas.

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1 Pulchra Caietae speculantis altum
2 busta Tyrrhenum tepidisque pulchrae
3     Formiae litus Zephyris, et arva
4         nota Lyaeo

5 unde mirantes oculi per aequor
6 vitreum late pelagi feruntur
7     icta dum pura tremulum refulgent
8         marmora luna;

9 sed nec [...] mihi pulchriores 1 Explanatory

9.3 [...]] "A lacuna between nec and [...]" , 2025.

"A lacuna between nec and mihi with no marginal suggestion (Garrett)."

Gray, Thomas: The Latin Poetry of Thomas Gray. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Estelle Haan. Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies, vol. 11. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 84.

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10 Vinsorae clivis Thamesisque longis
11     flexibus pleno virides secantis
12         flumine ripas.

Works cited

  • Abbott, Ruth, and Ephraim Levinson (eds.): Thomas Gray among the Disciplines. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2024.
  • Gray, Thomas: The Latin Poetry of Thomas Gray. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Estelle Haan. Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies, vol. 11. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

A transcription from the original MS at the John Work Garrett Library was first distributed by Stephen Clarke at the BSECS 2023 conference on 4 January 2023. It was first published in his article "New Manuscript Material from Thomas Gray’s Grand Tour", in: Abbott, Ruth, and Ephraim Levinson (eds.), Thomas Gray among the Disciplines. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2024. 52-70. The version of the text presented here is that of The Latin Poetry of Thomas Gray. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Estelle Haan. Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies, vol. 11. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 84.

About this text

  • Composition: 1740
  • Publication: 2024
  • Base text: "Thomas Gray Manuscripts" (MS-GAR-0046), John Work Garrett Library, Johns Hopkins University
  • Metre: Aeolic
  • Stanza: Sapphic
  • Genre: Sapphic ode
  • Finding Aid: MS witnesses
  • Notes/Queries: 1
  • Source: TEI/XML