Autograph manuscript, signed Jean Ingelow , a fair copy of his poem The Warbling of Blackbirds

by Ingelow, Jean

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

13 x 8 1/4 inches, matted on paper. First stanza and second line of second stanza were detached from mount, have been reaffixed; some toning and a few spots of soiling. From the collection of Otto O. Fisher. Item #332903 From her collection Songs of the Voices of Birds printed in her Poems, Second Series Longmans, 1874 . The nostalgic tone, simple style, and natural and domestic scenes of Ingelow's poetry connect it with Wordsworth's.

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