Poems. A New Edition (Signature A, partial, Princeton copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Used with permission of Princeton University. From the Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. All rights reserved. Redistribution or republication in any medium requires express written consent from Princeton University Library. Permissions inquiries should be addressed to Associate University Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. [Untitled] Dante Gabriel Rossetti Strangeways and Walden London 1881 June [vii] DGR DGR Princeton U. Library, Troxell Collection 23310 19 x 12.8 cm Commentary
Introduction

This is a page from the second revise proof for the front matter of DGR's 1881 <hi rend="i">Poems. A New Edition.</hi> It was probably printed off in June 1881. From this was printed the final proof for the edition, a perfect copy of which is preserved in the library of the Delaware Art Museum.

The duplicate of this page, with DGR's more explicit note to the printer, is also at Princeton. That copy also has one further correction to the text.

Textual History: Composition

Textual History: Revision

DGR revised the initial proofs for the front matter for this book twice, and the library of the Delaware Art Museum preserves six partial sets of earlier proofs for this signature where one can track DGR's successive acts of revision. In addition to a complete final proof, Delaware has a corrected copy of pages i-iv plus an uncorrected revise for those pages; two copies (both partial) of the first author's proof, copy 1 and copy 2; and two partial copies of the first revise, copy 1 and copy 2, both also with revisions. Besides this proof page, the Princeton Library has another duplicate corrected proof page.

Printing History

Reception History

Historical

Literary

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Smaller size of “these poems”in Dedication DGR's note to the printer. <hi rend="c">ADVERTISEMENT</hi>. ————

‘MANY poems in this volume were written between 1847 and 1853. Others are of recent date, and a few belong to the intervening period. It has been thought unnecessary to specify the earlier work, as nothing is included which the author believes to be immature.’

The above brief note was prefixed to these poems when first published in 1870. They have now been for some time out of print.

The fifty sonnets of the <hi rend="i">House of Life</hi> which first appeared here are now embodied with the full series in the volume entitled <xref doc="a.2-1881.raw">‘Ballads and Sonnets.’</xref>

The fragment of <hi rend="i">The Bride's Prelude</hi> , now first printed, was written very early, and takes its place here is here associated with other work of the same date; though its pub- lication in an unfinished state form needs some indulgence.