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Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay, Oh come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown, and See, the ship in the bay is riding : manuscript poems in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, undated [ca. 1815 or later].

BIB_ID
105019
Accession number
MA 215.85
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1815 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
"Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay" here titled "Song -- Tune, Julia to the wood robin."
Keats is probably not the author of "See, the ship in the bay is riding." This manuscript copy of the poem is accompanied by a note in Woodhouse's hand reading "This piece K. said had not been written by him. He did not see it: but I repeated the first 4 lines to him." Mabel A.E. Steele and Jack Stillinger agree that the attribution to Keats is questionable. See Garrod (p. lxxii-lxxiii) and Stillinger (1978, p. 753).
Originally fols. 1-3 in Woodhouse's compilation of transcripts of John Keats's unpublished poetry, which is now at Harvard and generally cited as W².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.
Stillinger (1978, p. 541, 545) dates Keats's composition of "Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay" to "probably in 1814" and "O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown" to "probably in 1815."
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
Manuscript copies of three poems in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, and with his notes and edits.