BIB_ID
119156
Accession number
MA 215.7
Creator
Woodhouse, Richard, Jr., 1788-1834.
Display Date
[1818 Oct.].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Dating from Rollins.
Mary Frogley was later Mrs. Neville.
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.
Mary Frogley was later Mrs. Neville.
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.
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
Praising John Keats, noting "such a genius ... has not appeared since Shakespeare & Milton: and I may assert ... that if his Endymion be compared with Shakespeare's earliest work (his Venus & Adonis) written about the same age, Keats's poem will be found to contain more beauties, more poetry (and that of a higher order) less conceit & bad taste and in a word much more promise of excellence than are to be found in Shakespeare's work." Discussing Gifford's attack on Endymion in the Quarterly Review and Keats's genius.
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