BIB_ID
299550
Accession number
MA 215.97
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
[1817 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Dating: Preceded by a note referencing the printed (1817) version of the poem, and discussing its composition in February 1816. A similar note preceding "Hadst thou liv'd in days of old" in MA 215.93 states that the poem was composed by John Keats for his brother George Keats to send to Mary Frogley as a valentine in 1816. See also Stillinger (1978), p. 547-548.
Originally fols. 4-5 in Woodhouse's compilation of transcripts of John Keats's unpublished poetry, which is now at Harvard and generally cited as W².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.
Originally fols. 4-5 in Woodhouse's compilation of transcripts of John Keats's unpublished poetry, which is now at Harvard and generally cited as W².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 manuscript copy of Keats's "Hadst thou liv'd in days of old" in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, and with additional notes by him (one of which is dated 1819).
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