The Sonnet (Rosenbach Library second corrected copy)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Production Description

Document Title: The Sonnet
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1880
Type of Manuscript: fair copy manuscript with corrections
Collation: 1 small leaf

Provenance

Current Location: Rosenbach Library

Physical Description

Dimensions of Document: 4 7/16 x 7 1/8 in.
Other Physical Features: This sonnet (as well as seven others) is written on paper identical with the paper carrying the Rosenbach Library's fair copy of “Transfigured Life”.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is one of the two earliest fair copies of the poem. The other, the direct ancestor of this document, is housed in the Rosenbach Library as well.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: By permission of The Rosenbach Library