BIB_ID
412112
Accession number
MA 22064.5
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
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.
Possible date of writing inferred from autograph date on MA 22064.4.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Autograph manuscript of a revised version of the poem, "Cleopatra" only containing the last few stanzas in 13 lines, with the last two lines ending, "to crown Caesar's triumph --- / no queen now, but a private woman?"
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