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POETS - AMERICAN

8 May 2013, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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POETS - AMERICAN

COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH POETICAL MANUSCRIPTS etc., by Robert Lowell (a page of random autograph notes, heavily scored through in part, possibly of poems to be included in Day by Day); William Carlos Williams (two typed poems, signed); Richard Wilbur (typed poem, 'Nyezabudka', signed with a typed letter signed); Arthur Freeman (typescript signed and inscribed of his poem 'The Lapse'); John Updike (autograph and typescript drafts, 3 pages, of an unpublished limerick 'The Only Limerick to Come Out of Southern Sweden', beginning 'There was a young student of Lund...'); Oliver Herford, 1863-1935 ('Metaphysics', illustrated poem for the old Life magazine); Paul Anderson (autograph poem 'Rupert's Farewell to Oberon'); Galway Kinnell (two revised typed poems), and James Clarence Harvey.

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