BIB_ID
105059
Accession number
MA 215.92
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
[1819 Apr. or later].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Dated April 1819 by Hessey, but this may be the date of composition and not necessarily the date Hessey copied the poem. Stillinger (1978, p. 635) gives the date of composition as on or before 16 April 1819, when Keats copied the poem in a letter to his brother and sister-in-law.
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.
With a penciled note "to follow the 'Lawyer,'" a poem that also appeared in the London Magazine, Nov. 1821. This note suggests that the manuscript served as a printer's copy.--Cf. Stillinger (1985), p. 322 and Stillinger (1978), p. 635-636.
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.
With a penciled note "to follow the 'Lawyer,'" a poem that also appeared in the London Magazine, Nov. 1821. This note suggests that the manuscript served as a printer's copy.--Cf. Stillinger (1985), p. 322 and Stillinger (1978), p. 635-636.
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 J. A. Hessey, here titled "Sonnet after reading Dante."
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