grayt.ead.0001-mss.0071Thomas 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.0071#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt10[The Gaurus]Nec procul infelix se tollit in aethera Gaurus,1775LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 146-149 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 312-315 (with English
prose translation)
Written at Rome in June
or early July 1740 while on the Grand Tour with Horace Walpole, and sent from Florence in a letter to Richard
West, dated [25
September 1740].
First published, untitled, in Mason's
Memoirs (1775), section II, letter no. XXVII.
mss.0071poems.lt10[untitled]July 17402autograph fair copyLatin
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 115, 128
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 57, 84Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 22Martin, Chronologie (1931), 138
Autograph fair copy, here untitled, under the heading
"Carmina" and annotated "Rome -- July,
1740 just return'd from Naples", in
Gray's
Commonplace
Book, vol. I, split over two pages: p. 115 (ll. 1-52) and
p. 128 (ll. 53-61).