EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.

£22,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

"Give All to Love", autograph manuscript poem. A rare manuscript copy of one of the Sage of Concord's most profound and celebrated poems, which combines his radical individualism with Platonic and Romantic apprehensions of love and nature. The manuscript exhibits half a dozen corrections and three lines vary slightly from the text printed in his debut collection Poems (1847), suggesting this may be a draft version.The manuscript is here tipped into a brown morocco volume bound for Mary Brooks Picken (1886-1981), the author of several books on fashion and textiles.

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