BIB_ID
102844
Accession number
MA 23112
Creator
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.
Display Date
London, England, 1890-1901.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 21.5 x 17.7 cm
Notes
The verses are undated however a note in the upper left corner reads "proof to / E.G. / 29 Delamere Terrace W." Gosse and his wife lived at Delamere Terrace from 1875 to 1901. Browning died in late December 1889.
Removed in 1922 from a volume lettered "MSS Poems etc.," which was purchased from G.S. Hellman in 1907.
Removed in 1922 from a volume lettered "MSS Poems etc.," which was purchased from G.S. Hellman in 1907.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from G.S. Hellman, 1907.
Summary
On the death of Robert Browning; being a poem of four stanzas, the first two of 4 lines each and the last two of 3 lines each; the published version changes the second word of the first line from "life" to "soul".
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