[Rarebooks] FS: Superb William Wordsworth Manuscript

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new Summer Miscellany which contains 71 items ranging in price 
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Franklin Library Signed 60, the Capra Chapbook Series, and a patron's 
set of the Kenyon Review with all contributions signed by the authors 
including a number of Nobel Prize winners. Also included are early 
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WORDSWORTH, William. AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS). A one-page (8" x 
10") lengthy AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED by Wordsworth from a poem by 
Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke), a contemporary and friend of poet Philip 
Sidney. In full:

"The chief use, then in Man of that he knows
Is his painstaking for the good of all;
Not fleshly weeping for our own made woes,
Not laughing from a melancholy gall,
Not hating from a Soul that overflows
In bitterness, breathed forth from inward thrall;
But sweetly rather to ease, loose, or bind,
As need requires, this frail, fallen human kind. 
 
                            Lord Brooke./Peter House July 5th 1815/Wm 
Wordsworth."
 
                                         It is clear why Wordsworth 
might have chosen these words of Brooke's--"Man's Service" from A 
TREATISE OF HUMANE LEARNING-- to write as the two shared the notion that 
while knowledge might bring happiness, it also increases susceptibility 
to suffering and self-torment. Matted and framed with an engraved 
portrait of Wordsworh to an overall size of 22" x 18". Not examined out 
of the frame but appears to be Fine.

Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was a close friend of Sir Philip Sidney and a 
great patron of letters. Most of his works were not published until 
after his murder by a servant who thought he had been omitted from his 
master’s will. Some believe Greville is the true author of several plays 
attributed to William Shakespeare. 		$4,500.00

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