[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Autograph Manuscript Poem by Robert Frost

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FROST, Robert. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED: "A Nearly Next to 
Naught Song" Fair copy AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a complete poem of 29 
lines titled "A Nearly Next to Naught Song," completely in Frost's hand 
and SIGNED by him at the conclusion with the dedication "For Richard 
Hocking/once the author's pupil for/a lesson or two at Shady Hill/or 
rather on the porch on/Irving Street" on a 6-1/8" x 7-3/4" piece of 
paper. In the upper right corner in pencil Hocking has written "1957." 
The text is the poem published as "A Never Naught Song" in the 1962 
volume IN THE CLEARING. In this version Frost has eliminated two 
lines--"Out of coming-in/Into having been!"--and made various other 
changes in words and punctuation. The Houghton Library at Harvard has a 
Frost notebook, undated, containing this poem titled as "A Next to 
Nearly Naught Song." It is one of two poems by Frost along with "All 
Revelations" (1938) concerned with descriptions of the quantum nature of 
atoms. Fine. (#012451) $7,500.00

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