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PLATEN, August, Graf von (1796-1835). Autograph manuscript poem, [1833], 'Philemon', including a number of autograph emendations and cancellations, 21 lines on two pages, small 4to , on the verso of an trimmed address leaf to Platen in Stuttgart, remnant of seal (seal tear and stain), tipped onto card.
PLATEN, August, Graf von (1796-1835). Autograph manuscript poem, [1833], 'Philemon', including a number of autograph emendations and cancellations, 21 lines on two pages, small 4to , on the verso of an trimmed address leaf to Platen in Stuttgart, remnant of seal (seal tear and stain), tipped onto card. The death of the playwright Philemon and the downfall of Athens: 'Als einst Athen Antigonus beklagte, Da saß der alte, neun und neunzigjährige Poet Philemon, mächtiger Dichter Ueberrest, In dürftiger Wohnung saß er da gedankenvoll, Er, der Athen's glorreichsten Tagen beigewohnt, Der auch gehört einst Demosthen's Philippika Und oft den Preis errungen durch anmutige Weisheitserfüllte, die er schrieb, Comödien'. First published with the title 'Philemon's Tod' in the Deutsche Musenalmanach of 1834.