Lot 444
Southey, Robert
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£375
Description
Autograph poetical manuscript, 'The Ides of March. March 15', from line 27 ("Thy dagger pierced the Tyrant. Liberty") to the end of the poem, [c.1798], 1 page, 8vo, the author's name added in another hand
Footnote
Note: Southey's poem is a panegyric on Brutus commemorating his assassination of Julius Caesar, and an expression of Southey's early Jacobite politics. It was first published in The Morning Post on the anniversary of the assassination, 15 March 1798.