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"[The Gaurus]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt10
    • Uniform Title: "[The Gaurus]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Nec procul infelix se tollit in aethera Gaurus,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 146-149 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 312-315 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Rome in June or early July 1740 while on the Grand Tour with Horace Walpole, and sent from Florence in a letter to Richard West, dated [25 September 1740]. First published, untitled, in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section II, letter no. XXVII.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0071 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: July 1740
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 115, 128, 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 57, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 138
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, under the heading "Carmina" and annotated "Rome -- July, 1740 just return'd from Naples", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, split over two pages: p. 115 (ll. 1-52) and p. 128 (ll. 53-61).
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0072 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: June 1740
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/4/5, 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 two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 58, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, annotated in an unidentified hand "A Fragment in the Stile of Virgil, by T. Gray from Naples".

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