Lot 187
  • 187

Joyce, James

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Joyce, James
  • Proof sheet for three poems published in Poetry (Chicago, November 1917)
  • paper
the poems "On the Beach at Fontana", "Alone" and "She Weeps over Rahoon", two corrections in pencil to the second stanza of the first poem (possibly in Joyce's hand), 209 x 228mm., c. 1917, folded three times, slightly browned

Provenance

The author's brother Stanislaus; thence by descent

Literature

Slocum & Cahoon C51

Condition

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Catalogue Note

These three poems were later printed in Pomes Penyeach, where the text of the second line of the second stanza of the third poem, "She Weeps over Rahoon", was revised (from "How desolate the heart is, ever calling" to  "How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling"). The pencil revision to the present proof occurs in the third line of the second stanza of  "On the Beach at Fontana". The revision is incorporated into the text as it appears in Pomes Penyeach. "She Weeps over Rahoon" was also reprinted in the Literary Digest, New York, 12 January 1918.