grayt.ead.0001-mss.0008Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0008#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt04[Alcaic Ode]O Tu, severi relligio loci,1775LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 151-152 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 317-318 (with English
prose translation)
Gray wrote this
poem in the album of the monastery of the Grande Chartreuse on this
second visit on 21 August 1741, during
his journey from Turin to Lyon, when he was returning
alone from the Grand Tour.
First published, as
Ode, in
Mason'sMemoirs (1775), 117-118. MS translation into English by Thomas
Wharton.
mss.0008poems.lt04In the Book at the Grande Chartreuse
among the Mountains of DauphinéAugust 17411autograph fair copyLatin
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 129 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 6, 79Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 22
Autograph fair copy, headed
In the
Book at the Grande Chartreuse among the Mountains of
Dauphiné, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 129.