"[Alcaic Ode]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.lt04
• Uniform Title: "[Alcaic Ode]" [e-text]
• First Line: O Tu, severi relligio loci,
• Language: Latin
• First Published: 1775
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 151-152 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 317-318 (with English prose translation)
• Summary: Gray wrote this poem in the album of the monastery of the Grande Chartreuse on this second visit on 21 August 1741, during his journey from Turin to Lyon, when he was returning alone from the Grand Tour. First published, as "Ode", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 117-118. MS translation into English by Thomas Wharton.

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0008 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "In the Book at the Grande Chartreuse among the Mountains of Dauphiné"
  • Date: August 1741
  • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
  • Language: Latin
  • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 129, 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 6, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22
  • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "In the Book at the Grande Chartreuse among the Mountains of Dauphiné", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 129.