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3651. Zweig MS 156

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Zweig MS 156
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STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLVI. Heinrich Heine: poem 'Die armen Weber'; [1844]. Draft. German. Published as 'Die Schlesischen Weber'. See Heinrich Heine, Sämtliche Schriften, ed. K. Briegleb, vol. 4 (Munich, 1971), p. 455. f. 1. 269 x 209mm. Heinrich Heine, author: Poetry GERMAN: Poem 'Di...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1844]
Extent:
1 item

3652. Zweig MS 159

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 159
Title:
Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Poem 'Vor Tag'
Scope & Content:
Autographfair copy. Hofmannsthal’s hand shows characteristics of both roman script and Kurrentschrift. Thirty-eight lines of blank verse in iambic pentameters. It describes man and nature awaking at daybreak after a storm, a vision of Christ and his mother, and a guilty young man returning to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1907
Extent:
1 item

3653. Zweig MS 160

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 160
Title:
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin: Poem 'Stuttgart' [1800-1801]
Scope & Content:
Autograph fair copy in Kurrentschrift. Folio 1 annotated by other hands as described above. An elegy of six stanzas with the title spelled ‘Stutgard’. Each strophe is formed of nine distiches in groups of three. The poem reflects the celebration of autumn in a landscape through which the wande...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 item

3654. Zweig MS 161

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 161
Title:
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin: Two poems 'An die Deutschen' and 'Die scheinheiligen Dichter'
Scope & Content:
Autograph drafts in Kurrentschrift. Signed at the foot of the recto (the corresponding signature on the verso is cut away). Two of the twelve epigrammatic odes that Hölderlin prepared for publication in 1798. Both of eight lines in two stanzas. 'An die Deutschen': a call to action for Germa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1798
Extent:
1 item

3655. Zweig MS 162

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 162
Title:
Henrik Johan Ibsen: Fragment of article 'En Udflugt til Abydos'
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft with corrections and additions. The article describes Ibsen’s visit to the ruins of Abydos in Egypt on his way to the ceremony for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. The manuscript contains notes describing the journey by steamship from Quenneh in Nubia and the activities of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Norwegian
Date Range:
[1869]
Extent:
1 item

3656. Zweig MS 163

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Zweig MS 163
Title:
John Keats: Fragment of poem 'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'
Scope & Content:
Autograph first draft. Fifty-seven lines (including deletions) from the 4th leaf of the poem. The whole work consists of 242 lines in rhyming couplets, drafted on ten leaves. Lines 87-106 of the final version are drafted on the recto, and lines 123-150 on the verso of this fragment. The gap be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1816]
Extent:
1 item

3657. Zweig MS 164

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Zweig MS 164
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Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXIV. Heinrich von Kleist: three patriotic poems; 1806. Fair copies. German. See Heinrich von Kleist, Sämtliche Werke und Briefe, ed. H. Sembdner, vol. 1 (Munich, 1964), pp. 24-28. ff. 5. 211 x 163mm. 1. ff. 1-3v. 'Germania an ihre Kinder'. 2. ff. 4-4v. 'An K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1806
Extent:
1 item

3658. Zweig MS 165

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 165
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Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXV. Jean de la Fontaine: five poems; 1660. Fair copies. French. See Oeuvres Diverses de la Fontaine, ed. P. Clarac (Paris, 1948), pp. 500, 501, 509. f. 1. 226 x 167mm. 1. f. 1. 'Madrigal Au Roy et a l'Infante'. 2. f. 1. 'Autre Pour le Roy'. 3. f. 1. 'Autre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1660
Extent:
1 item

3659. Zweig MS 166

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Zweig MS 166
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STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVI. Henri Masers de Latude: part 20 of the Mémoire sent from Vincennes to M. de Sartine, Lieutenant-General of the Police; 1770. French. ff. 24. 159 x 88mm. Notebook with marbled paper covers, inserted in a portfolio of matching paper-covered boards, half bound ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1770
Extent:
1 item

3660. Zweig MS 167

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 167
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Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVII. Giacomo Leopardi: poem headed 'XXXVIII. Dal greco di Simonide'; early 19th cent. Draft. Italian. See Tutti le Opere di Giacomo Leopardi, ed. Francesco Flora, 'Le Poesie e le Prose', vol. I (Milan, 1945), p. 135. ff. 2. 133 x 97mm. Giacomo Leopardi, poet: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

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