grayt.ead.0001-mss.0166Thomas 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.0166#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.tdin[Translation from Dante, Inferno Canto xxxiii 1-78]From his dire food the grisly felon raised1849 and 1884Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 61-63Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 23-25
Written probably in 1737 or 1738 when
Gray was translating other Italian verse by Tasso and
Petrarch.
First published, 15 lines only, in
The Gentleman's
Magazine N.S. 32 (October 1849), 343, published in full in
Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. I, 157-160, as
Dante. Canto 33, dell' Inferno.
mss.0166poems.tdinTranslation in Blank Verse of Dante's
Ugolino c. xxxiii.[between 1845 and 1856]1transcript in the hand of
John
Mitford, partial [ll. 1-4, 82-84] and crossed out
180 mm x 110 mmAdd. MS 32562, f. 29 Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 07/10/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 92
Transcript of ll. 1-4 and 82-84 in the hand of John Mitford
(crossed out), annotated "Mason says Gray translated this,
when learning Italian", in John Mitford,