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Introductory Sonnet ("A Sonnet is a moment's monument")

This collection contains 32 Rossetti Archive files.

Manuscripts:

  1. The Sonnet1880
  2. The Sonnet (Rosenbach Library first corrected copy)1880
  3. The Sonnet (Rosenbach Library second corrected copy)1880
  4. The Sonnet (Yale fair copy) 1880
  5. The House of Life, A Sonnet Sequence (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Princeton/Troxell collection)1869-1881
  6. Small Notebook 2 (British Library)1871-1879?
  7. Small Notebook 3 (British Library)1871-1879?
  8. Small Notebook 3 (British Library)1871-1879?
  9. The House of Life (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Fitzwilliam Museum)1845 - 1881
  10. Bodleian Notebook II1870-1880 ?
  11. Notebook Page (Rosenbach Library)1880
  12. Notebook Page (Rosenbach Library)1880
  13. Sonnets and Fragments (Princeton/Troxell bound manuscript volume)1848-1881


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Editions:

  1. Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1873): the Tauchnitz Edition, with author's corrections (Yale copy)1873 November 15 (late November or early December)
  2. The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 1 (1886)1886
  3. Ballads and Sonnets (1881), first edition1881 October 17
  4. Ballads and Sonnets (1881), second edition1881
  5. Ballads and Sonnets (1882), fourth edition 1882
  6. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life1899
  7. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A Record and a Study1882
  8. The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911)1911
  9. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His Family-Letters with a Memoir (Volume Two)1970


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Proof States:

  1. Ballads and Sonnets (1881), (author's proofs, British Library copy)1881 April-June
  2. Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature M (Delaware Museum, first author's proof, copy 1)1881 April 25
  3. Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature M (Delaware Museum, first author's proof, copy 2, revise)1881 April 28
  4. The Sonnet (Texas proof copy)

    1880




  5. The Sonnet (Yale proof copy)

    1880






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Pictures:

  1. The Sonnet; study for the angel

    1880 (circa) pencil tracing




  2. The Sonnet; Design for the Surround

    1880 (circa) pencil on undated watermarked handmade paper




  3. The Sonnet

    1880 April 27 Apr:27.1880 pen and ink




  4. The Sonnet (Texas proof copy)

    1880




  5. The Sonnet (Yale proof copy)

    1880




  6. The Sonnet (sketch)

    1880 pencil




  7. The Sonnet

    1880 pen and ink






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