grayt.ead.0001-mss.0133Thomas 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.0133#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt21[Orders of Insects]Alas lorica tectas Coleoptera jactant.1814 and 1966LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 179-185 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 337-342 (with English
prose translation)
Begun not earlier than 1759, the year
Gray
bought his copy of Linnaeus, but possibly only in the last years of his
life. The additional lines were presumably abandoned due to his last
illness in 1771.
First published, as
Generick Characters of the
Orders of Insects, and of the Genera of the first six Orders, named
Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, and
Diptera; expressed in Technical Verses, in Mathias
(ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 570-573. Additional lines ("Palpos ore duos, triplexque
Lepisma flagellum") first published in Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 185.
mss.0133poems.lt21[untitled][after 1759]1autograph fragment, revised, additional linesLatinMOLISmith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 4,
79, together with a list of books, item GrT 178, 97, cf. item
GrT 233, 102Jones, Thomas
Gray, Scholar (1937), "Register of Gray Autograph
Manuscripts", VI. 20(d), 181
Autograph fragment, revised, here untitled, five additional lines on
one page, together with a list of books, later tipped(?) into Herbert
Paul,