"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.0100 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "Ode"
  • Date: [1769?]
  • Physical Description: 4 pages; autograph fair copy
  • Language: English
  • Location: Modern (Unbound) Manuscripts, Box 7a, Folder 18, 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 86, 87; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 603, 9; Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (30 June 1984), lot 483, facsimile in catalogue; Rich, Margaret Sherry, "Please forward". E-mail to Mark Farrell, forwarded to the editor, 26 June 2006; Farrell, Mark, "Re: [Fwd: Please forward]". E-mail to the editor, 28 June 2006
  • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Ode". A hand-written, nineteenth-century saleroom ticket, which refers to the manuscript as "Lot 603", is stuck onto the last page with sealing wax.