BIB_ID
104930
Accession number
MA 7642
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
ca. 1818-1819.
Credit line
Bequest of Annie Fields, 1915.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 16.1 x 25.6 cm
Notes
Being the only known autograph fragment of Hyperion.
Removed from Mrs. Fields' Album (MA 925) in 1935 and bound with a collection of autograph poems of John Keats (MA 214), now housed separately.
With an autograph attestation signed by Leigh Hunt, presenting the manuscript fragment to Samuel Adams Lee.
Written during the winter of 1818-1819.--Cf. Dictionary of National Biography and Garrod.
Removed from Mrs. Fields' Album (MA 925) in 1935 and bound with a collection of autograph poems of John Keats (MA 214), now housed separately.
With an autograph attestation signed by Leigh Hunt, presenting the manuscript fragment to Samuel Adams Lee.
Written during the winter of 1818-1819.--Cf. Dictionary of National Biography and Garrod.
Provenance
Cut from the manuscript for Samuel Adams Lee by Leigh Hunt, Mar. 7, 1856; presented to Mrs. J. T. Fields; bequest of Annie Fields, 1915.
Summary
A working draft of Book II, lines 116-127 (beginning "There is a roaring in the bleak-grown pines").
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