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Song and Daisy's song : manuscript poems in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, [1818].

BIB_ID
105057
Accession number
MA 215.68
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
[1818].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
4 4-line stanzas and 3 4-line stanzas.
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.
Written by Keats in 1818 (see Stillinger 1978, p. 598). Woodhouse has dated both poems 1818, but this may refer to the date of Keats's composition and not necessarily to the date that Woodhouse copied the poems.
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
Fair copies of Keats's poems "Song" and "Daisy's Song," in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse. Dated 1818 by Woodhouse.