grayt.ead.0001-mss.0269Thomas 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.0269#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.otadOde to AdversityDaughter of Jove, relentless power,1753Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 10-11Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 68-74
Completed at Stoke Poges by August 1742 and sent in a letter to
Horace
Walpole, 8 September [1751].
First published, as
Hymn to
Adversity, in Dodsley'sDesigns (1753), [24].
mss.0269poems.otadHymn to adversity[between 1766 and 1800][?]transcript in the hand of James Forbes
fc.132, vol. I, 147
Osborn Collection Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library YALEParks, Stephen et al. (ed.), Osborn
Collection First-Line Index. New Haven: Beinecke Library, Yale
University, 2005, 175, item D0034Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare
Library. 16 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=10637>
Transcript, entitled
Hymn to adversity,
in James
Forbes' Commonplace book,
1766-1800, vol. I "Poems on Several Occasions Collected
from Different Authors", a manuscript collection of approximately
150 poems and excerpts, primarily epitaphs and elegies, poems in praise
of virtues, odes dedicated to women, and poems on nature and weather.