"[The Death of Hoel]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.deho
• Uniform Title: "[The Death of Hoel]" [e-text]
• First Line: Had I but the torrent's might,
• Language: English
• First Published: 1775
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 69-70; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 233-235
• Summary: Written at London in 1760 or 1761. First published, entitled "Ode XI. The Death of Hoel", in Mason's Poems (1775), 58-59.

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0226 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "The Death of Hoel. an Ode"
  • Date: 1780[?]
  • Physical Description: 5 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, 99-103, 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 Death of Hoel. an Ode" (p. 99) ("Ode. XI." [p. 101]). The poem, which is annotated "See M^r. Evans's Specimens, 71 and 73." on the title page, 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.