BIB_ID
119150
Accession number
MA 215.1
Display Date
1818 Oct. 3.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.4 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 more information.
The identity of "R.B." is unknown.
This letter, as published in the Morning Chronicle on 8 October 1818, is referred to by Keats in a letter of the same date to John Taylor. See Letters of John Keats, v. 1, ed. Hyder Edward Rollins (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1958), p. 373-374, and Letters, v. 1, ed. Forman (1931), no. 85, p. 240-243.
With two lines of notes in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse at the foot of the page.
The identity of "R.B." is unknown.
This letter, as published in the Morning Chronicle on 8 October 1818, is referred to by Keats in a letter of the same date to John Taylor. See Letters of John Keats, v. 1, ed. Hyder Edward Rollins (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1958), p. 373-374, and Letters, v. 1, ed. Forman (1931), no. 85, p. 240-243.
With two lines of notes in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse at the foot of the page.
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
Defending Endymion against an attack by J. W. Croker in the Quarterly Review. Quoting extracts from Book I of the poem and leaving the readers to "judge whether the Critic who could pass over such beauties as these lines contain, and condemn the whole Poem as "consisting of the most incongruous ideas in the most uncouth language," is very implicitly to be relied on." Dated "Temple, Oct. 3rd, 1818."
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