| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920. |
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| Auction: Anderson Galleries |
| | | Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977) |
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| “LOT 65: John Keats to Fanny Brawne | |
| A beauty, gentlemen, and in the best | |
| Condition. Four leaves, scarcely pressed. | |
| What am I bid? Five hundred … Five … Come on. | |
| Who’ll make it Six? Six hundred….” (Pale and drawn, | 5 |
| I dreamed forever in a sweet unrest | |
| Of your warm, lucent, million-pleasured breast) | |
| “Six hundred … Now Six fifty … Are you done?” | |
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| “Seven … A half … Did I hear eight?… Eight … Eight … | |
| Who’ll make it Nine?” (Would that I could survive | 10 |
| The horrors of a brutal world. I hate | |
| All men and women, saving one, alive.) | |
| “Nine fifty … Going … Sorry, sir; too late. | |
Sold to this party for Nine sixty five.”
The New Republic | |
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