BIB_ID
105068
Accession number
MA 215.96
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
[1815 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.8 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. 543) dates the composition of "Oh Chatterton..." to 1815. MA 215.96 is dated "J. K. 1815," but this may refer to the date of composition and not the date that this copy was made.
Stillinger (1985, p. 321) suggests that this poem may be in the hand of George Keats.
Stillinger (1978, p. 543) dates the composition of "Oh Chatterton..." to 1815. MA 215.96 is dated "J. K. 1815," but this may refer to the date of composition and not the date that this copy was made.
Stillinger (1985, p. 321) suggests that this poem may be in the hand of George Keats.
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 an unknown hand, here titled "Sonnet."
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