grayt.ead.0001-mss.0075Thomas 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.0075#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.hyig[Hymn to Ignorance. A Fragment]Hail, horrors, hail! ye ever-gloomy bowers,1775Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 73-74Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 74-77
Written between March and October
1742 after Gray's arrival in England from the Grand Tour
and before his return to Peterhouse, Cambridge.
First published, untitled but referred to as a "Hymn or Address to
Ignorance", in Mason's
Memoirs (1775), 176-177.
mss.0075poems.hyigFragment of an address or Hymn
to Ignorance[after 1771]3transcript in the hand of William Mason
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. III,
1103-1105 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 61, 85Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
Transcript in the hand of William Mason, here entitled
Fragment of an address or Hymn
to Ignorance, annotated "...about the year 1743",
in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1103-1105.