grayt.ead.0001-mss.0138Thomas 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.0138#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.pppoThe Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric OdeAwake, Aeolian lyre, awake,1757Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 12-17Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 155-177
Begun not earlier than September 1751 and
completed by December 1754 when
Gray sent the poem in a letter to Thomas Wharton, dated 26 December 1754.
First published, as
Ode.
in Odes by Mr. Gray (1757), 5.
mss.0138poems.pppoOde, in the Greek manner[1754?]2autograph, revised
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. II,
727-728 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 114, 90Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 28Martin, Chronologie (1931), 145
Autograph, revised, here entitled
Ode, in
the Greek manner, the first line altered from "Awake my
Lyre, my Glory, wake" to the first line as published, including an
alternative version of five of the last six lines, and annotated
"Finish'd in 1754. printed together with the Bard, an Ode. Aug: 8.
1757", in
Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. II, 727-728.