BIB_ID
299399
Accession number
MA 215.71
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
[1814 Aug. or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Dating: the autograph copy of "Fill for me a brimming bowl" (MA 215.73) is dated August 1814 by Keats. See also a second manuscript copy by Woodhouse (MA 215.70). Stillinger (1978, p. 540-542) has dated the composition of "Fill for me a brimming bowl" to August 1814 and "On peace" to ca. April 1814.
On the verso of "On peace" (i.e., formerly fol. 7v in W²) Woodhouse has written "This sonnet would seem to have been written on the death of some person - & probably a female," followed by two lines of shorthand reading "I enquired of K. whether it was not so; and he said he had written it on the death of his grandmother, about five days after; but that he had never told any one, not even his brother, the occasion on which it was written; he said he was tenderly attached to her." This note is dated 7 February 1819, and refers to the sonnet "As from the darkening gloom a silver dove," which is transcribed by Woodhouse on fol. 8r of W².
Originally fols. 6-7 in Woodhouse's compilation of transcripts of John Keats's unpublished poetry, which is now at Harvard and generally cited as W².
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.
On the verso of "On peace" (i.e., formerly fol. 7v in W²) Woodhouse has written "This sonnet would seem to have been written on the death of some person - & probably a female," followed by two lines of shorthand reading "I enquired of K. whether it was not so; and he said he had written it on the death of his grandmother, about five days after; but that he had never told any one, not even his brother, the occasion on which it was written; he said he was tenderly attached to her." This note is dated 7 February 1819, and refers to the sonnet "As from the darkening gloom a silver dove," which is transcribed by Woodhouse on fol. 8r of W².
Originally fols. 6-7 in Woodhouse's compilation of transcripts of John Keats's unpublished poetry, which is now at Harvard and generally cited as W².
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
A fair copy of two poems by John Keats in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse.
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