"Ode for Music"

• Archive Work ID: poems.ocmu
• Uniform Title: "Ode for Music" [e-text]
• First Line: "Hence, avaunt, ('tis holy ground)
• Language: English
• First Published: 1769
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 48-51; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 264-274
• Summary: Written at Cambridge between 6 February and 20 April 1769 for the installation of the Duke of Grafton as Chancellor of the University, 1 July 1769. First published, anonymously, as Ode performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge... (1769), a copy of the first edition with an autograph note is at the Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA.

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0101 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: November 1805
  • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of Norton Nicholls, partial [l. 1]
  • Language: English
  • Location: John Morris Collection, College Library, Eton College, Windsor, UK <http://www.etoncollege.com/collegelibrary.aspx>
  • References: Mitford (ed.), Works (1843), vol. v, 50; Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 87, 87; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), vol. iii, 1301
  • Contents: Transcript of l. 1 in the hand of Norton Nicholls, in his MS Reminiscences of Gray, p. 26.