Sold for:
$805
$805
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL (1819-1891) Autograph Letter Signed, Cambridge June 13, 1843, one page, to A. M. Ide, Jr., responding to request for advice concerning his poetry and dispensing further advice to the aspiring poet. Partial text: "It is wholly impossible to judge from many specimens, even, of youthful poetry, (much more so from one), what may be the promise of the writer...you must not write till you have read...read Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats & Shelley - they will tell you better than I whether you are a poet or not."
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2001-11-10
