SEUME, Johann Gottfried (1763-1810). Autograph letter signed ('Seume') to an unidentified recipient [possibly Freidrich von Matthisson], n.d., n.p., one page, 4to .
SEUME, Johann Gottfried (1763-1810). Autograph letter signed ('Seume') to an unidentified recipient [possibly Freidrich von Matthisson], n.d., n.p., one page, 4to . MY LATEST TRANSGRESSION. Seume transmits his most recent poem (not present), excusing its deficiencies but confessing that he did not wish to change it: 'Hier werden Sie endlich mit meiner neuesten Sünden heimgesucht. Der Himmel gebe Ihnen Muth und Kraft und Indulgenz; das erste für Sie, das zweyte für mich. Die Form hat mich bei wiederhohlter Durchsicht nicht befriedigen wollen; aber in der Sache selbst wüßt ich nichts zu ändern', ending with pessimistic reflections on the political state of the world, 'Der Himmel gebe Ihnen Freude in Ihrem Paradiese!'. Seume's youth was scarred by a long period of enforced military service, from 1782 to 1787; he later worked as a tutor, secretary and publisher. His best known works are travel books, Spaziergang nach Syrakus (1803) and Mein Sommer im Jahr 1805 (1807).
SEUME, Johann Gottfried (1763-1810). Autograph letter signed ('Seume') to an unidentified recipient [possibly Freidrich von Matthisson], n.d., n.p., one page, 4to .
SEUME, Johann Gottfried (1763-1810). Autograph letter signed ('Seume') to an unidentified recipient [possibly Freidrich von Matthisson], n.d., n.p., one page, 4to . MY LATEST TRANSGRESSION. Seume transmits his most recent poem (not present), excusing its deficiencies but confessing that he did not wish to change it: 'Hier werden Sie endlich mit meiner neuesten Sünden heimgesucht. Der Himmel gebe Ihnen Muth und Kraft und Indulgenz; das erste für Sie, das zweyte für mich. Die Form hat mich bei wiederhohlter Durchsicht nicht befriedigen wollen; aber in der Sache selbst wüßt ich nichts zu ändern', ending with pessimistic reflections on the political state of the world, 'Der Himmel gebe Ihnen Freude in Ihrem Paradiese!'. Seume's youth was scarred by a long period of enforced military service, from 1782 to 1787; he later worked as a tutor, secretary and publisher. His best known works are travel books, Spaziergang nach Syrakus (1803) and Mein Sommer im Jahr 1805 (1807).
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