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Auction archive: Lot number 103

WHITMAN, Walt Autograph draft manuscript, an early draft of ...

Estimate
US$7,000 - US$12,000
Price realised:
US$26,400
Auction archive: Lot number 103

WHITMAN, Walt Autograph draft manuscript, an early draft of ...

Estimate
US$7,000 - US$12,000
Price realised:
US$26,400
Beschreibung:

WHITMAN, Walt. Autograph draft manuscript, an early draft of a section from "As consequent from store of summer rains," from the Autumn Rivulets cluster in Leaves of Grass , 1881-1882. 1 page, oblong (8 3/8 x 8¾ in.) . The original draft written in a dark ink, with later revisions, insertions and additions in a lighter ink.
WHITMAN, Walt. Autograph draft manuscript, an early draft of a section from "As consequent from store of summer rains," from the Autumn Rivulets cluster in Leaves of Grass , 1881-1882. 1 page, oblong (8 3/8 x 8¾ in.) . The original draft written in a dark ink, with later revisions, insertions and additions in a lighter ink. A HEAVILY REVISED SECTION OF "AUTUMN RIVULETS" IN "LEAVES OF GRASS". A highly interesting draft of the first poem in the "Autumn Rivulets" section of the 1881-82 version of Whitman's Leaves of Grass . The "Autumn Rivulets" cluster of poems Whitman placed just after the sections of his Civil War poetry headed "Drum Taps," and "Memories of President Lincoln." The new verses in "Autumn Rivulets" are lyrical, peaceful, expressive of hope and healing in the wake of war. The 20-odd lines have been heavily corrected and revised by Whitman, in ink of two different weights, so that the layers of his alterations are easily distinguished. The initial draft-in a heavy ink-shows several crossed out lines and rewritten passages; then, in several places the later, light ink revisions themselves have been subjected to further revision. This probable first draft, before revision reads: "Out of a hundred years, Out of the fathomless ocean of Time," These drifted straws & gluten sands - this raff of weeds & shells (O little shells, so convolute - so cold and voiceless, Shall you to the tympans of temples held, Murmurs of waves still bring up -- sea music faint, Strains for the soul of the prairies, wafted inland, Joyously sounded, chords for the ear of the West, Whispered reverberations -- moanings & echoes old, Yet ever new & untranslatable?)...These drifted bubbles. Salt-moist leaves, debris Out of the vast forever-rolling deep, Fragments and specimens left by the sibilant tide Washed on America's shores." [With:] WHITMAN. Engraved portrait signed ("Walt Whitman 1855"), n.d. [after 1855]. 1 page (12¼ x 6½ in.), signed in blue pencil. The same engraving used for the frontispiece of the 1855 edition of eaves of Grass : a standing portrait of the young poet in a slouch hat, one hand in his pocket, the other on his waist.

Auction archive: Lot number 103
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jun 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
19 June 2007, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

WHITMAN, Walt. Autograph draft manuscript, an early draft of a section from "As consequent from store of summer rains," from the Autumn Rivulets cluster in Leaves of Grass , 1881-1882. 1 page, oblong (8 3/8 x 8¾ in.) . The original draft written in a dark ink, with later revisions, insertions and additions in a lighter ink.
WHITMAN, Walt. Autograph draft manuscript, an early draft of a section from "As consequent from store of summer rains," from the Autumn Rivulets cluster in Leaves of Grass , 1881-1882. 1 page, oblong (8 3/8 x 8¾ in.) . The original draft written in a dark ink, with later revisions, insertions and additions in a lighter ink. A HEAVILY REVISED SECTION OF "AUTUMN RIVULETS" IN "LEAVES OF GRASS". A highly interesting draft of the first poem in the "Autumn Rivulets" section of the 1881-82 version of Whitman's Leaves of Grass . The "Autumn Rivulets" cluster of poems Whitman placed just after the sections of his Civil War poetry headed "Drum Taps," and "Memories of President Lincoln." The new verses in "Autumn Rivulets" are lyrical, peaceful, expressive of hope and healing in the wake of war. The 20-odd lines have been heavily corrected and revised by Whitman, in ink of two different weights, so that the layers of his alterations are easily distinguished. The initial draft-in a heavy ink-shows several crossed out lines and rewritten passages; then, in several places the later, light ink revisions themselves have been subjected to further revision. This probable first draft, before revision reads: "Out of a hundred years, Out of the fathomless ocean of Time," These drifted straws & gluten sands - this raff of weeds & shells (O little shells, so convolute - so cold and voiceless, Shall you to the tympans of temples held, Murmurs of waves still bring up -- sea music faint, Strains for the soul of the prairies, wafted inland, Joyously sounded, chords for the ear of the West, Whispered reverberations -- moanings & echoes old, Yet ever new & untranslatable?)...These drifted bubbles. Salt-moist leaves, debris Out of the vast forever-rolling deep, Fragments and specimens left by the sibilant tide Washed on America's shores." [With:] WHITMAN. Engraved portrait signed ("Walt Whitman 1855"), n.d. [after 1855]. 1 page (12¼ x 6½ in.), signed in blue pencil. The same engraving used for the frontispiece of the 1855 edition of eaves of Grass : a standing portrait of the young poet in a slouch hat, one hand in his pocket, the other on his waist.

Auction archive: Lot number 103
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jun 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
19 June 2007, New York, Rockefeller Center
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