Record ID:
299521
Accession number:
MA 215.88
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes:
Dating from Garrod.
Attributed to John Keats by Finney (1936) and Garrod (1958). This attribution is called into question by Stillinger (1978), who suggests the poem may have been composed by Richard Woodhouse.
3 8-line stanzas.
The first line referrs to John Scott's "The house of mourning: a poem, with some smaller pieces" (1817).
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.
Summary:
A manuscript copy of the poem in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, with edits by him and followed by a line in shorthand.
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.
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