grayt.ead.0001-mss.0226Thomas 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.0226#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.deho[The Death of Hoel]Had I but the torrent's might,1775Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 69-70Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 233-235
Written at London in 1760 or 1761.
First published, entitled
Ode XI. The
Death of Hoel, in Mason'sPoems (1775), 58-59.
mss.0226poems.dehoThe Death of Hoel. an Ode1780[?]5transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on
Whatman paper180 mm x 110 mm
MS Add. 439, Poems section,
99-103
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 Death of Hoel. an Ode
(p. 99) (Ode. XI. [p. 101]). The
poem, which is annotated "See Mr.
Evans's Specimens, 71 and 73." on the title page, 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.