The Moonstar Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1871
abbaaccadedeed iambic 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>Not much need be said of this sonnet, which is a conscious replication of a rhetoric widely dispersed in the poetry of Dante and his circle. DGR probably wanted it in the sequence exactly for that reason. In certain respects it “replaces” the lyric <xref doc="a.2-1865.raw"> <title level="wrk">“Plighted Promise” , which was originally titled “The Moonstar” and which was the third of the lyrics included in the 1870 version of “The House of Life” .

Textual History: Composition

Four integral manuscripts come down to us: the Bancroft collection corrected draft; and three fair copies, one made for Jane Morris and the Kelmscott Love sonnets sequence; and two later copies, the fair copy in the Fitzwilliam compilation of The House of Life; and the one in the Library of Congress.

Textual History: Revision

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Printing History

First published in the 1881 Ballads and Sonnets and collected thereafter.

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WMR, <hi rend="i">DGR Designer and Writer</hi> , 202-203 Baum, ed., <hi rend="i">House of Life</hi> 106

1881 Ballads and Sonnets first edition text 1881 Ballads and Sonnets first edition text Poems. (Privately Printed.): Proofs for the Second Trial Book (partial), Princeton/Troxell. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869 November 25-26 0 The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 1 (1886) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1886 0 The Moonstar (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection) 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, 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, uncorrected copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 -1881 June 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature O (Delaware Museum, first author's proof) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 3 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature O (Delaware Museum, complete first revise, author's corrected copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 6 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature O (Delaware Museum, complete first revise, uncorrected copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 6 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature O (Delaware Museum, complete first revise, uncorrected copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 6 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature O (Delaware Museum, complete second revise, author's copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 9 May 1881 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature O (Delaware Museum, complete second revise, uncorrected copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 9 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 Twelve Sonnets and Some Other Poems by Dante G. Rossetti (Library of Congress posthumous MS book) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1848-1881 0