BIB_ID
290774
Accession number
MA 457.3
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
[1706].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1907.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 15.2 cm
Notes
Based on Ovid's Metamorphoses (book 8).
Part of a collection of letters and manuscript poems written by or attributed to Jonathan Swift. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 457 for more information.
Part of the Fountaine Papers.
The poem is dated 1706 by either Swift or the printer in a 1711 printing of Swift's Miscellanies.
This manuscript version of the poem differs considerably from the earliest printed version, which included extensive revisions based on Joseph Addison's suggestions. The variant passages were first printed by John Forster in his Life of Jonathan Swift (London: J. Murray, 1875).
Part of a collection of letters and manuscript poems written by or attributed to Jonathan Swift. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 457 for more information.
Part of the Fountaine Papers.
The poem is dated 1706 by either Swift or the printer in a 1711 printing of Swift's Miscellanies.
This manuscript version of the poem differs considerably from the earliest printed version, which included extensive revisions based on Joseph Addison's suggestions. The variant passages were first printed by John Forster in his Life of Jonathan Swift (London: J. Murray, 1875).
Provenance
Andrew Fountaine; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
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