"[Translation from Statius, Thebaid IX 319-26]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.tra9
• Uniform Title: "[Translation from Statius, Thebaid IX 319-26]" [e-text]
• First Line: Crenaeus, whom the nymph Ismenis bore
• Language: English
• First Published: 1915
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 57-58; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 277
• Summary: Written probably as a school exercise at Eton between 1725 and 1734, possibly Gray's earliest composition in English. First published in Toynbee (ed.), Correspondence (1915), vol. ii, 299-300 with a facsimile.

2 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0169 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [between 1725 and 1734]
  • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph draft, partial [ll. 1-13]
  • Language: English
  • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 106, 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. Facsimile in Toynbee (ed.), Correspondence (1915), vol. ii, following p. 298
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 141, 93; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33; Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 57n
  • Contents: Autograph draft of ll. 1-13, here untitled, together with MS 0170.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0170 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [between 1725 and 1734]
  • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy, ll. 14-16 revised
  • Language: English, Latin
  • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 106, 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 142, 93; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33
  • Contents: Autograph (ll. 1-13 fair copy, ll. 14-16 revised), here untitled, including a transcript of the Latin original between ll. 13 and 14, annotated in the hand of Horace Walpole "This written when he was very young", together with MS 0169.