BIB_ID
104995
Accession number
MA 215.83
Creator
Taylor, John, 1781-1864.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1821 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Formerly attributed to John Keats by Amy Lowell (1925). Provisionally attributed to Charles Strong or A.G. Spencer by E. L. Brooks (""The Poet" an Error in the Keats Canon?," Modern Language Notes, Vol. 67, No. 7 (Nov., 1952), pp. 450-454). Attributed to John Taylor by Mabel A.E. Steele ("The Authorship of "The Poet" and Other Sonnets: Selections from a 19th Century Manuscript," Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 5 (Winter, 1956), pp. 69-80), and by Jack Stillinger.
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.
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 copy of the poem in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse.
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