Aftermath, with manuscript quotation from Fata Morgana

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Lot 50 | Aftermath, with manuscript quotation from Fata Morgana
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Aftermath, with manuscript quotation from Fata Morgana

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1873

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882). Aftermath. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1873.



O sweet illusions of Song,

That tempt me everywhere,

In the lonely fields, and the throng

Of the crowded thoroughfare!



Autograph quotation from Fata Morgana, signed by Longfellow—in the first edition, first issue of his compilation Aftermath. By 1873 Longfellow was at the zenith of his career, extremely popular and earning a large income from his work. The tragic death of his wife Fanny in 1861, however, had cast a pall over his life from which he never fully recovered. The poem which he has here quoted in manuscript on the flyleaf, Fata Morgana, is an extended metaphor on the optical illusion of the same name, inspired by the character from Arthurian legend. BAL 12164.



Octavo (175 x 115mm). Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard. Original red cloth with gilt emblem on cover, brown coated endpapers (abraded); modern cloth chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Howard Lehman Goodhart, 1884-1951 (morocco book label).

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