BIB_ID
104927
Accession number
MA 215.74
Display Date
undated [1819?].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Beginning "And gold and silver are but filthy dross."
Formerly attributed to John Keats. Stillinger (1978, p. 754 and 1985, p. 301 n.) calls this attribution into question and suggests (1978) that the fragment may have been composed and penned by Richard Woodhouse. However, Andrew Motion suggests that Keats may have written Gripus in response to Charles Brown's 1819 Valentine to Fanny Brawne (Cf. Andrew Motion, Keats: a biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), p. 347).
Part of a large collection, assembled by Richard Woodhouse, of letters and manuscripts relating to the English poet John Keats. Items in the collection have been described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 215 for more information.
Formerly attributed to John Keats. Stillinger (1978, p. 754 and 1985, p. 301 n.) calls this attribution into question and suggests (1978) that the fragment may have been composed and penned by Richard Woodhouse. However, Andrew Motion suggests that Keats may have written Gripus in response to Charles Brown's 1819 Valentine to Fanny Brawne (Cf. Andrew Motion, Keats: a biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), p. 347).
Part of a large collection, assembled by Richard Woodhouse, of letters and manuscripts relating to the English poet John Keats. Items in the collection have been described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 215 for more information.
Provenance
Part of a collection assembled by Richard Woodhouse; by descent in 1834 to the publisher John Taylor; by descent in 1864 to his relatives, descending finally to his niece by marriage, Mrs. George Taylor of Bakewell, Derbyshire; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1906.
Summary
A sketch or fragment of a play in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, with a few revisions by him.
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