Word: howden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...works of Gray-a task that had never before been thoroughly undertaken. The poet's manuscripts, were widely scattered; most of them had disappeared, and were found only by extended search through the British Museum, Pembroke and Peterhouse Colleges at Cambridge, the Dicey library at South Kensington, Lord Howden's autograph collection, and various private libraries. At Pembroke College he found three folio volumes of manuscript, unexamined since 1814, containing scribbling of every one of Gray's poems. Some of these were new, among them some Latin poems and a translation in verse from Propertius. This latter was written...
...From the Howden collection of autographs Mr. Gosse obtained several unprinted pieces. After reading these, Mr. Gosse spoke briefly upon the age in which Gray lived, and the place he occupied in it. Gray was isolated in his age, and went back for his teachers to Dryden and Cowley. He formed his style on these, and, in a less degree, on Milton and the Greek poets...