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"[The Death of Hoel]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.deho
    • Uniform Title: "[The Death of Hoel]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Had I but the torrent's might,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 69-70; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 233-235
    • Summary: Written at London in 1760 or 1761. First published, entitled "Ode XI. The Death of Hoel", in Mason's Poems (1775), 58-59.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0035 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1761?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1070, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 27, 81; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, untitled but headed "From Aneurin, Monarch of the Bards, extracted from the Gododin", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1070.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0226 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "The Death of Hoel. an Ode"
      • Date: 1780[?]
      • Physical Description: 5 pages, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on Whatman paper
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS Add. 439, "Poems" section, 99-103, The Archives, York Minster Library & Archives, York, UK <https://yorkminster.org/treasures-and-collections.html>
      • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand, entitled "The Death of Hoel. an Ode" (p. 99) ("Ode. XI." [p. 101]). The poem, which is annotated "See Mr. Evans's Specimens, 71 and 73." 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.

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