BIB_ID
80103
Accession number
MA 658.1
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
[1817 or earlier].
Credit line
Presented by J.P. Morgan, Jr. before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 19.3 cm
Notes
Attested by Charles Cowden Clarke at the top of p. 1.
Both manuscripts appear to be working drafts.
The manuscript of "I stood tip-toe upon a little hill" was cut up and distributed to friends by Charles Cowden Clarke. Another fragment (lines 97-182) is held by Harvard Library.
Both manuscripts appear to be working drafts.
The manuscript of "I stood tip-toe upon a little hill" was cut up and distributed to friends by Charles Cowden Clarke. Another fragment (lines 97-182) is held by Harvard Library.
Provenance
Charles Cowden Clarke.
Summary
Contains autograph manuscript drafts of two poems: Sonnet XII ("On leaving some friends at an early hour," first line "Give me a golden pen...") is on the recto and two fragments from "I stood tip-toe upon a little hill" (lines 25-8, "I was light hearted...," and lines 151-9, "So do they feel who pull the boughs aside...") are on the verso.
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