BIB_ID
108506
Accession number
MA 4357
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
Olney, England?, circa February 1780.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman in honor of Charles Ryskamp on his tenth anniversary as Director of The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.6 x 11.5 cm
Notes
No place or date of writing is given on the manuscript. In The Poems of William Cowper, Baird and Ryskamp propose that the poem was written in late February 1780, while Cowper was living in Olney. See the published poems, cited below, for additional information.
Provenance
Purchased at Christie's sale, 1979 June 13, lot 145. From the Collection of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.
Summary
Being a poem of thirty-eight lines, beginning "A Nightingale that all day long."
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