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[Robert Southey, Lake Poet; apparently unpublished and unrecorded] Autograph Manuscript Poem signed S. entitled On the Death of Riego [Captain-General Rafael del Riego y Fl?rez (1784 ? 1823) Spanish Army officer and politician]

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Robert Southey, Lake Poet [Rafael del Riego y Fl?rez]
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Watermark 1820
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Part of a cr. 8vo page, 18 x 14cm, aged but clear and complete, over-writing a letter on verso (part of) signed B Gooch [perhaps a relative of Southey's friend Robert Gooch]. SEE SCAN for full text. Title On the Death of Riego. Four stanzas, 4 lines each. First lines [He?] is gone the life of the good and brave | Has pass'd like a brief told story [.....Last lines] Yet died he not unfriended; | Then the patriot's spirit breath'd forth one prayer, | And [soar'd] above unbended..]

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Long manuscript of an early Victorian poem entitled 'The last of the Hohen Stauffens', divided into three sections: 'Italy', 'The Morning of the Execution' and 'The Execution'. With a number of emendations and deletions.

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[Anonymous Victorian poem ('Written for Dublin about 1843') titled 'The Last of the Hohen Stauffens', on the execution of Conradine, 1268.]
Victorian poem entitled 'The last of the Hohen Stauffens'
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Undated, but on paper watermarked 1841, and docketed 'Written for Dublin about 1843'.
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Victorian poem entitled 'The last of the Hohen Stauffens'

Folio, 11 pp. On the rectos of eleven leaves of Britannia paper watermarked 'W H FELLOWS | 1841'. Held together with string. Text clear and complete. In ink, with deletions and emendations in pencil. Good, on aged paper. Docketed on reverse of last leaf. The subject of the poem is the execution of Conradine in the market square in Naples, 29 October 1268. The first section (3 pp) begins 'Italia fair Italia unto thee, | Was beauty given twice with misery, | At once the loveliest and the loveliest clime, | Thou wert the seat of Empire, and of crime; [...]'.

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