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ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BURROUGHS, JOHN. Manuscript for The Poet and the Modern. Owner's hand-colored title; 3 photographs. 8 pages of manuscript, in
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BURROUGHS, JOHN. Manuscript for The Poet and the Modern. Owner's hand-colored title; 3 photographs. 8 pages of manuscript, in ink, with numerous corrections and changes, first page marked "proof to author (John Burroughs) at Roxbury, New York." 8vo, beautifully bound in evergreen morocco with decorative gilt borders, spine, and doublures incorporating Burroughs's initials and floral borders, by Grabau, silk endpapers; board folding box. Boston: Atlantic Monthly, October 1896
- Notes: original manuscript, signed by burroughs bound with the first appearance of this work, as printed in Volume 78, Issue 468 of The Atlantic Monthly. An essay wherein Burroughs calls for poets to embrace the new modern age and, through their words, bring to its outwardly hard and unattractive qualites a sensitivity and humanity.
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