BIB_ID
412110
Accession number
MA 22064.3
Creator
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.
Display Date
[1966].
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.7 cm
Notes
Heavily corrected and annotated in pencil by Lowell throughout, with lines of stanzas to the right and below the text..
Published as "Cleopatra (Horace, Odes, Book I, 37: Nunc pede liberum) in Near the ocean / Robert Lowell ; drawings by Sidney Nolan. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.
Possible date of writing inferred from autograph date on MA 22064.4.
Published as "Cleopatra (Horace, Odes, Book I, 37: Nunc pede liberum) in Near the ocean / Robert Lowell ; drawings by Sidney Nolan. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.
Possible date of writing inferred from autograph date on MA 22064.4.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Corrected typescript of a revised version of the poem, "Cleopatra" containing 32 lines in 8 stanzas, with the last two lines ending, "How could you crown Caesar's triump-- / not a queen, but a private woman?"
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