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"Satire on the Heads of Houses; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.sahh
    • Uniform Title: "Satire on the Heads of Houses; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring" [e-text]
    • First Line: O Cambridge, attend
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1884
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 76-77; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 280-282
    • Summary: According to Starr/Hendrickson, possibly written in the late 1740s or early 1750s when Gray's criticism of the University authorities was particularly severe. First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. I, 134-135, where the poem is dated "about 1765".

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0145 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Satire on the Heads of Houses; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring"
      • Date: [between 1747 and 1765]
      • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph
      • Language: English
      • Location: [privately owned]
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 120, 91; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 615(?), 10, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53(?), 42, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 229(?), 70; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53?,] 10
      • Contents: Autograph, owned (1884) by Lord Houghton.

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