grayt.ead.0001-mss.0124Thomas 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.0124#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.0124poems.otad[untitled][1?] February 17681autograph, partial [motto only]324 mm x 200 mmAdd. MS 38511, f. 3r Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 04/11/2006.
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 105, 89Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
Autograph motto for the poem, untitled but numbered 4. and identified
on f. 3r as "4. Ode, to Adversity", in MS instructions to
Dodsley for the 1768London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February
1768.
The motto first appeared in the poem's version in Poems (1768).