11-10-200111-10-2001
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2109Boston
November 10, 2001 10:00 AMCalender
65

LOWELL

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$805$700
Auction: Sale #2109 - 2109Location: BostonDate / Time: November 10, 2001 10:00AM

Description:

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL (1819-1891) Autograph Letter Signed, Cambridge June 13, 1843, one page, to A.M. Ide, Jr., responding to request for advice concerning his poetry and dispensing further advice to the aspiring poet. Partial text: "It is wholly impossible to judge from many specimens, even, of youthful poetry, (much more so from one),what may be the promise of the writer...you must not write till you have read...read Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats & Shelley - they will tell you better than I whether you are a poet or not."
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Keywords

JAMES RUSSELL, A.M. Ide , Jr., aspiring poet , poet