grayt.ead.0001-mss.0220Thomas 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.0220#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.0220poems.pppoThe Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode1780[?]13transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on
Whatman paper180 mm x 110 mm
MS Add. 439, Poems section,
33-45
The ArchivesYMAR
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in The Archives, York Minster Library & Archives, on 27/02/2007.
Transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand, entitled
The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode
(p. 33) (Ode. V. [p. 35]). The
poem, which has numbered stanzas and includes the motto in Greek and
attribution on the title page as well as Gray's notes to ll. 3, 13, 25, 42, 54, 66,
84, 95, 111, and 115, is
part of a section called Poems, which is
separately paginated and has its own table of contents (p. 129), in a
volume entitled Gray's Poems. The book
carries the bookplate of Gray's friend and biographer William Mason.