BIB_ID
105058
Accession number
MA 215.76
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
undated [1814 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
"Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay" here titled "Song."
Dating: John Woodhouse's scrapbook of transcripts of John Keats's poetry (known as W², now at Harvard) dates the composition of "Song" to ca. 1815-1816. Stillinger (1978, p. 540-541) dates the compostion of "Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay" to "probably 1814" and "Written on 29 May..." to "probably 1814 or 1815."
Garrod questions the attribution of "Lines written on 29 May" (p. lxxiii), but Stillinger (1978) accepts the Keats attribution.
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.
Dating: John Woodhouse's scrapbook of transcripts of John Keats's poetry (known as W², now at Harvard) dates the composition of "Song" to ca. 1815-1816. Stillinger (1978, p. 540-541) dates the compostion of "Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay" to "probably 1814" and "Written on 29 May..." to "probably 1814 or 1815."
Garrod questions the attribution of "Lines written on 29 May" (p. lxxiii), but Stillinger (1978) accepts the Keats attribution.
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 fair copy of two poems in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse.
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