"The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment"
- Archive Work ID: poems.trow
- Uniform Title: "The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment" [e-text]
- First Line: Owen's praise demands my song,
- Language: English
- First Published: 1768
- References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 35-36; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 228-233
- Summary: Written probably in 1760 or 1761 when Gray was living in London. Based on a Latin translation by Evan Evans of the original Welsh "Arwyain Owain Gwynnedd" by Gwalchmai ap Meilyr. First published in Poems (1768).
5 Manuscripts:
- Archive MS ID: mss.0190 (Source: EAD/XML)
- Title: "The Triumphs of Owen, a Fragment from the Welch"
- Date: [1760 or 1761]
- Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
- Language: English
- Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1068, 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 162, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
- Contents: Autograph fair copy, with four lines at the end intended to follow l. 26, here entitled "The Triumphs of Owen, a Fragment from the Welch", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1068.
- Archive MS ID: mss.0191 (Source: EAD/XML)
- Title: [untitled]
- Date: [1?] February 1768
- Physical Description: 2 pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph fair copy
- Language: English
- Location: Add. MS 38511, ff. 6v-7r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library,
London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
- References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 163, 95; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=137227>
- Contents: Autograph fair copy, untitled but numbered 9. and identified on f. 3r as "9. The Triumphs of Owen, a fragment", headed "Prefix...Owen succeeded his Father Griffin in the principality of North-Wales, A:D: 1120. this battle was fought near forty years afterwards. (from Mr Evans's Specimens of the Welch poetry. Lond: 1764. 4to)", including an explanatory note of "The Dragon-Son", used as printer's copy for Poems (1768), in MS instructions to Dodsley, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768.
- Archive MS ID: mss.0192 (Source: EAD/XML)
- Title: [untitled]
- Date: 1 February 1768
- Physical Description: [2?] pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph
- Language: English
- Location: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, Vol. 52, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, Princeton University Library,
Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
- References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 164, 95; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
- Contents: Autograph, untitled but numbered 9. and identified from the table of contents as "9. The Triumphs of Owen (from the Welch)", and headed "Note) Owen succeeded his Father Griffin in the principality of North Wales, A:D: 1120. this battle was fought near 40 years afterwards, (from Mr Evans's Specimens of the Welch poetry. Lond: 1764.4to)" together with a note on the Dragon-Son, in MS Instructions to Beattie for the 1768 Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
- Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
- Archive MS ID: mss.0225 (Source: EAD/XML)
- Title: "The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment. From Mr. Evans's specimens of Welch Poetry; London, 1764, Quarto"
- Date: 1780[?]
- Physical Description: 6 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, 93-98, 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 Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment" (p. 93) ("Ode X." [p. 95]). The poem, which includes Gray's notes and the additional lines after l. 26 by Mason, 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.
- Archive MS ID: mss.0274 (Source: EAD/XML)
- Title: "The triumphs of Owen Gwynedd a fragment"
- Date: [after 1773]
- Physical Description: [?] pages, 190mm x 120mm (volume); transcript in the hand of John Freeman Milward Dovaston
- Language: English
- Location: c.481, 45, Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University Library,
New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
- References: Parks, Stephen et al. (ed.), Osborn Collection First-Line Index. New Haven: Beinecke Library, Yale University, 2005, 624, item O1156; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 16 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=10633>
- Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Freeman Milward Dovaston, entitled "The triumphs of Owen Gwynedd a fragment", in his autograph Select, and Miscellaneous Poems, Scraps, Mottos &c, 1773 and later, a Commonplace book of verse by Dovaston and others.