Thames Valley Sonnets Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1873-74
sonnet group <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>DGR marked his sojourn at Kelmscott in 1873-1874 with these two sonnets, which he first published as a pair in 1874. <xref doc="a.10-1873.raw"> <title level="wrk">“Spring” was written first, in May 1873, and “Winter” next, nine months later. DGR reversed their order when he published them together in 1874, an arrangement that turns the sonnets into a quasi-allegorical commentary on DGR's time in the “Thames Valley” with Jane Morris.

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First published in <hi rend="i">The Athenaeum</hi> (30 May 1874), page 730; reprinted in the 1881 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> where they appear as separate sonnets and without the title “Thames Valley Sonnets”; collected thereafter.

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Athenaeum Text The Athenaeum, 1874, Part I 1874 January - 1874 June 0 A Series of Holograph MSS 1849-1880 (Library of Congress) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1849-1880 0 A Series of Holograph MSS 1849-1880 (Library of Congress) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1849-1880 0