"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.0099 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "Ode, for musick"
  • Date: [1769?]
  • Physical Description: 4 pages; autograph fair copy (unsigned)
  • Language: English
  • Location: Houghton b MS Eng 870, 52B, The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
  • Alternate Form: Photocopy in RP2338, Manuscripts Collection, The British Library, London, UK
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 85, 87; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 603(?), 9; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=36724>
  • Contents: Autograph fair copy (unsigned), here entitled "Ode, for musick", lot 125 in an unidentified sale.