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To Alisa Rock : manuscript poem in the autograph of Charles Cowden Clarke, [1818 July 10 or later].

BIB_ID
105067
Accession number
MA 215.95
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
[1818 July 10 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
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.
Stillinger (1978, p. 612-612) dates Keats's compostion of this poem to 10 July 1818.
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 Charles Cowden Clarke, here titled "Sonnet to Alisa Rock," with his note "Literary Pocket Book / for 1819."