BIB_ID
119167
Accession number
MA 215.19
Creator
Woodhouse, Richard, Jr., 1788-1834.
Display Date
[ca. 1818 Oct. 27].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Dating from Rollins.
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.
These notes are drafts and were probably intended to form part of a letter to John Taylor.
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.
These notes are drafts and were probably intended to form part of a letter to John Taylor.
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
Concerning a letter from Keats to Woodhouse (dated 27 October 1818). Referencing Keats's distinction between himself and the Wordsworth School, and discussing his poetry and the cultivation and development of his imagination. Favorably comparing Keats to Lord Byron, and professing faith in "every Syllable of Keats's letter."
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