Scottish poet (1777-1844). Autograph poem signed. N. p. o. d. Oblond 12mo. 1 p. Mounted on paper (181 x 116 mm).
$ 688 / 650 €
(45123/BN31195)
The famous 6th stanza of "Hallowed Ground" that was first published in the October 1825 issue of Campbell's New Monthly Magazine: "Strew ye his ashes to the wind / Whose sword or voice has serv'd mankind / And is he dead whose glorious mind / Lifts thine on high / To live in hearts we leave behind / Is not to die". In the published version, the first line of the stanza reads "But strew his ashes to the wind". - The journalist and acting editor of the New Monthly Magazine Cyrus Redding conveys a charming anecdote about the poem and its author in his 1860 biography of Thomas Campbell: "The next morning a servant came to me, with the following portion of his lines, called 'Hallowed Ground,' to which he had tacked a request that I would tell him whether he had used the 'shall' and 'will' with perfect propriety, as he could not overcome his doubts upon the point! I thought at first he was in jest.
The lines, in his own hand-writing, I still preserve, as a memento of that wavering and doubting which at times were apt to come over him in relation to other affairs as well as those of composition." - Well preserved..
Scottish poet (1777-1844). Autograph document signed. London. 120 x 52 mm. 2 lines.
$ 1,270 / 1.200 €
(92344/BN61551)
Reader's ticket for the manuscript collection of the British Museum, ordering "Maturin's Universe". Although the famous blank verse poem "The Universe" was published in 1821 under the name of the Irish novelist and playwright Charles Maturin, the author was in fact the Irish poet James Wills (1790-1868). - With a tear to the lower left corner.