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ROBERT FROST (American, 1874-1963)
Estimate:
$500 - $1,000
Sold
$5,000
Live Auction
Important Estates | March 30th & 31st
Category
Description
A fair copy manuscript excerpt of the final four-line stanza in Frost’s poem ‘Desert Places’, written in pen, reading: ‘They cannot scare me with their empty spaces / Between stars - on stars where no human race is. / I have it in me so much nearer home / To scare myself with my own desert places / Robert Frost’, framed
h. 3-1/2 w. 5-1/2 in. (sight)
overall: 8-1/2 x 10 in.
Provenance
The estate of J.D. McClatchy (1945-2018), American poet, librettist, literary critic, and former president of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Stonington, CT
