Books and Manuscripts: 19th and 20th Century
Books and Manuscripts: 19th and 20th Century
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July 20, 02:46 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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John Ruskin
Autograph manuscript poem “A Song of the Sea”, initialled JR
comprising 27 lines of verse in three stanzas of nine lines each, beginning "Its masts of might its souls so free / Had borne the scatheless keel...", title in pencil at head, marginal pencil gloss, 1 page, 4to, [1830s], traces of mounting at corners
Docketed in a contemporary hand in pencil "Written by Mr. John Ruskin | Christ Church | Oxford". Ruskin matriculated in October 1836, and devoted much of his time at Oxford to writing verse. He won the prestigious Newdigate Prize in 1839.
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