BIB_ID
105063
Accession number
MA 215.91
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
undated [1815-1816 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Dating: Stillinger (1978, p. 545-546) dates "O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown" to probably 1815, and "O Solitude! if I must with the dwell" to 1815 or 1816, noting "almost all scholars choose October or November 1815, a time shortly after Keats entered medical school."
For identification of the handwriting as Keats's, see Mabel A. E. Steele, "Three early manuscripts of J. Keats," Keats-Shelley Journal, 1952, v.1, p. 57-63, facsim on pl. VIII.
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.
Watermark: WILMOTT / 1814.
For identification of the handwriting as Keats's, see Mabel A. E. Steele, "Three early manuscripts of J. Keats," Keats-Shelley Journal, 1952, v.1, p. 57-63, facsim on pl. VIII.
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.
Watermark: WILMOTT / 1814.
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
Autograph fair copies of two poems, "O come..." here titled "Song" and "O Solitude..." here titled "Sonnet."
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