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Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘Lines to —’, a sonnet to Lord Byron: autograph fair copy; headed ‘Jan 22.’ [composed 1821 or 1822]
Scope & Content:
Begins: ‘If I esteemed you less, Envy would kill / Pleasure’.Ends: ‘The worm beneath the sod / May lift itself in worship to the God’. A sonnet of fourteen lines, divided into two stanzas of eight and six lines. The addressee or subject of the sonnet was first publicly identified as Lord Byron ...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCV. Collection of poems 'Fêtes Galantes'; circa 1869. Fair copies and drafts, including two printed proofs. French. See P. Verlaine, Oeuvres Poétiques Complètes, ed. Y. G. Le Dantec (Paris, 1962), pp. 107-121. ff. 31. Binding of red morocco, gold-tooled by E. A....
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCVI. 'Voyage d'un Français en France'; [1880]. Draft fragment. French. See P. Verlaine, Oeuvres en Prose Complètes, ed. J. Borel (Paris, 1972), pp. 993-1046. Presentation inscription of Ernest Delahaye to Zweig (f. 1). f. 1. 220 x 175mm. Paul Verlaine, poet: 'V...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCIX. Oscar Wilde: poem 'In the Gold Room'; [1881]. Draft. First published among 'Flowers of Gold' in Wilde's Poems (1881). See The Poems of Oscar Wilde (1908), p. 159. f. 1. 259 x 206mm. Poetry ENGLISH: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Poem 'In the...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CC. Reformatoren-Gedenkbuch; 1542. German and Latin. Album with entries by Reformers and others, including Martin Luther, Johannes Bugenhagen, Philipp Melanchthon and Caspar Creutziger. The volume also includes a letter of 1554 from Philipp Melanchthon to Theodor Fa...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CCII. Arthur Rimbaud: Une Saison en Enfer (Brussels, 1873). Printed. Dedicated on verso of title-page to Stefan Zweig from O. Van den Daele, Mons, 8 Oct. 1908. See also Zweig 181 and Chris Michaelides 'Stefan Zweig's copy of Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer (1873) in Th...
Stefan Zweig Collection: Giorgio Vasari: account of the life of the painter Luca Signorelli
Scope & Content:
Incomplete copy from Le Vite dei piu Eccellente Architetti, Pittori e Scultori Italiani (1550). Italian. With a typewritten English translation (ff. 3-7), and the relevant pages removed from a later printed edition (ff. 8-11). Presented by the Trustees of the Stefan Zweig Collection, 27 Sept. 19...
Autograph book of the pianist and composer Ignaz Moscheles. Most entries are written directly into the volume and are by musicians contributing musical quotations or complete short pieces. In addition, a number of items, including letters and drawings, are inserted. Includes inserted items dated...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Russian