A Prayer

A Prayer Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1846 <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>Except for the arresting line 6, the poem is completely undistinguished— a work that could not be set apart from any of dozens of similarly accomplished poems published in the periodicals and gift books of the day.</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>Three early manuscripts survive: the <xref doc="a.2-1846.delms.rad">Bancroft corrected copy</xref> (a partial copy); the <xref doc="a.2-1846.blms.rad" from="1">fair copy with corrections</xref> in the Ashley Library; and the <xref doc="a.2-1846.dukems.rad">fair copy</xref> in the library of Duke University, from which the Ashley Library manuscript was revised.</p> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="printhist"> <head>Printing History</head> <p>The poem was first published by WMR in his 1911 edition of the <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" workcode="2-1846" from="267" to="268">Works</xref>. WMR used the corrected Ashley Library copy as his copy text.</p> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="translation"> <head>Translation</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p/> </section> </commentaries> <linenotes> <basis> <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" workcode="2-1846" from="267" to="268">1911</xref> </basis> <lines> <gloss/> <textual/> <comp> <gloss/> <textual/> </comp> </lines> </linenotes> </profiledesc> <revisiondesc/> </ramheader> <readingtext> <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" workcode="2-1846" from="267" to="268">1911</xref> </readingtext> <viewingimage/> <wclist> <wc fileid="a.2-1846.blms.rad.xml" archivetype="rad" type="ms.faircopy" image="a.2-1846.blms.2.tif"> <title>A Prayer (corrected fair copy) DGR 1869 0 A Prayer (corrected fair copy, partial manuscript) DGR 1846 0 A Prayer (fair copy, earliest manuscript) DGR 1846 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0