BIB_ID
104929
Accession number
MA 215.75
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
undated [1816-1817 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
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.
Stillinger (1978, p. 562) dates Keats's composition of this poem to "the end of 1816 or early in 1817."
Woodhouse's note here is a draft of the explanatory note written opposite the poem in W².
Stillinger (1978, p. 562) dates Keats's composition of this poem to "the end of 1816 or early in 1817."
Woodhouse's note here is a draft of the explanatory note written opposite the poem in W².
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 fair copy of the poem in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, prefaced by a draft of Woodhouse's account of the exchange of laurel crowns between Keats and Leigh Hunt, stating that this episode was Keats's inspiration for Ode to Apollo.
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