Mid-Rapture Between Kisses Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1871
abbaaccadeedff iabic pentameter sonnet
<artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>With their characteristic wordplay in the phrase “deep-drawn”, lines 10-12 construct an emblem of DGR's aesthetic idea about the art of portraiture as he practised it: that the woman represented in his pictures is an image reflecting an ideal figure of DGR himself. Relevant here is <xref doc="a.1-1868.s212.raw"> <title level="bk">“The Portrait” , and in particular the conclusion where the correspondence between the image and its maker is emphasized.

Textual History: Composition

Five manuscripts of the sonnet are recorded. There is a fair copy in the Boston Public Library and another recorded as being in the Symington Collection, Rutgers University Library, but the curators report that it cannot be found. The other manuscripts are the copies in the Fitzwilliam, and the fair copies in the Princeton composite “House of Life” manuscript and in the Bodleian Kelmscott Love Sonnets group. The Boston, Rutgers, and Bodleian copies are all titled “Between Kisses”.

Textual History: Revision

Production History

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Printing History

First published in the 1881 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> and collected thereafter.

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WMR, <hi rend="i">DGR Designer and Writer</hi> , 201 Baum, ed., <hi rend="i">House of Life</hi> , 102

Ballads and Sonnets First Edition Text Ballads and Sonnets First Edition Text The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 1 (1886) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1886 0 Mid-Rapture (fair copy, Boston Public Library Manuscript) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1871 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), first edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 October 17 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), second edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1882), fourth edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1882 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), (author's proofs, British Library copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 April-June 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, first revise, copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 April 28 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, first revise, copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 April 28 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, second revise, copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 3 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, second revise, copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 3 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, third revise, author's copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 4 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, third revise, duplicate copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 4 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, third revise, duplicate copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 4 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, fourth revise, copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 6 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, fourth revise, copy 2, corrected) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 6 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, fourth revise, copy 3, corrected) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 6 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, final proof, WMR's copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 - 1881 June 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, final proof, DGR's copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 - 1881 June 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, final proof, partial and uncorrected copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May- 1881 June 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature N (Delaware Museum, final proof, uncorrected copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 -1881 June 0 The House of Life, A Sonnet Sequence (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Princeton/Troxell collection) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869-1881 0 The House of Life (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Fitzwilliam Museum) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1845 - 1881 0 The Bodleian Notebook (“Kelmscott Love Sonnets”) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1874 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0