An Altar-Flame

An Altar-Flame Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1848 <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>This is one of <xref doc="a.42-1848.raw">the group of sonnets</xref> that DGR and WMR wrote to rhymes set by each other. The brothers played this verse game between 1847-1849, and principally in 1848. The rule was that the sonnet should be written quickly, in five to ten minutes (see <bibl> <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" from="673" to="674" workcode="16-1848">1911</xref>, pages <pages>673-674</pages> </bibl>). Eighteen survive, fourteen of which were published by WMR in his edition of <bibl> <xref doc="a.pr5240.f11.rad" from="263" to="267">1911</xref>, pages <pages>263-267</pages> </bibl>, including this sonnet. Baum published the rest in his <bibl> <xref doc="a.z6616.r82d.rad" link="dead"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Manuscripts in the Duke University Library</hi> pages 56-65 .

Textual History: Composition

The only surviving manuscript is the fair copy in the Tinker Collection, Yale University's Beineke library.

Textual History: Revision

Production History

Reception

Iconographic

Printing History

First published by WMR in his 1911 edition.

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Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Paull F. Baum, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Analytical List of Manuscripts in the Duke University Library</hi> , 14-16, 56-65 Frances Winwar, <xref doc="a.">“Dante Gabriel's or William Michael's?”</xref> (March 1933), 312-315

1911 Yale University fair copy The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0 Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Tinker Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1848-50 0