This is an complete revise of Signature L of the
Ballads and Sonnets
volume. It is a duplicate of
In addition to this complete revise proof, the library of the Delaware Museum
of Art has the following proof materials for Signature L of DGR's
Ballads and Sonnets
volume: a complete copy of the
The revises that come in late April and throughout May are the following: an
incomplete
The principal revisions would have been made around mid-May, as we can tell from DGR's correspondence with his publisher. A letter to Ellis of 13 May says that all of the revises received to that date—which would have been everything through signature Q—had been sent back. But on 15 May he writes again to Ellis asking that the final printing of signatures K and L be held up for further revisions, which DGR completed on 17-18 May, as letters to Ellis of those dates show.
(The present full series of
The House of Life
consists of
To speak in the first person is often to speak most vividly :
but
these emotional poems are in no sense
“occasional.” The
“Life” involved in life representative, as
associated with love
and death, with aspiration and foreboding, or
with ideal art
and beauty. )