His Mother's Service to Our Lady Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1870
ababbccdcd iambic pentameter ballad The final stanza, of seven lines, rhymes aaabaab.
<author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citnliterary> <citntranslationoriginal> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citntranslationoriginal> <citnpictorial> <title/> <artist/> <location/> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>This is the last of DGR's three translations from Villon that he included in his 1870 <title level="doc"> <xref doc="a.1-1870.raw">Poems</xref> . It is an interesting addition since it connects with the religious train of materials in the volume, and so uses Villon to underscore the poetical relation, so important to DGR, of sacred and profane love.

Textual History: Composition

WMR ( 1911 ) dates this translation 1870, and it is likely that DGR composed it in late March or early April, specifically to be placed in his forthcoming volume of poetry with the other two Villon translations already in the book (see DGR's letter to his publisher of 4 April 1870, Fredeman, Correspondence 70. 82 ).

Textual History: Revision

Production History

Reception

Iconographic

Printing History

First published in the 1870 <xref doc="a.1-1870.1stedn.rad" workcode="25-1870" from="180">Poems</xref> , reprinted in the <xref doc="a.1-1881.1stedn.rad" workcode="25-1870" from="282">Poems. A New Edition</xref> , and collected thereafter.

Pictorial

Historical

Literary

Translation

DGR is translating Villon's <xref doc="a.villon001.rad" link="dead"> <hi rend="i">Le Testament</hi> </xref> 873-909.

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

See bibliography for the sequence of three Villon translations which included this one.

1881 Poems First Edition text Saint Mary of Egypt, a courtesan of Alexandria. The Vidame of the Church of Adana, in Cilicia. The legend of his dealings with the devil appears throughout medieval literature. 1881 Poems First Edition text Poems (1870): First Edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 April 26 0 Poems (1870): Second Edition (DGR's corrected copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 May 0 Poems (1870): Second Edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 May 0 Poems (1870): Third Edition (copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 June 0 Poems (1870): Third Edition (copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 June 0 Poems (1870): Fourth Edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 July (or early August) 0 Poems (1870): Fifth Edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1871 0 Poems (1870): Sixth Edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1872 0 Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1873): the Tauchnitz Edition 1873 November 15 (late November or early December) 0 Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1873): the Tauchnitz Edition, with author's corrections (Yale copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1873 November 15 (late November or early December) 0 Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1873): the Tauchnitz Edition, page proofs with author's corrections Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1873 November (early November) 0 Poems. A New Edition. (1881) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 0 Poems. A New Edition (1881), proof Signature T (Delaware Museum, first proof (author's copy)) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 16 (circa) 0 Poems. A New Edition (1881), proof Signature T (Delaware Museum, first proof (copy 2)) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 16 (circa) 0 Poems. A New Edition (1881), proof Signature T (Delaware Museum, first revise proof (uncorrected)) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Poems. A New Edition (1881), proof Signature T (Delaware Museum, first revise proof (copy 1)) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Poems. A New Edition (1881), proof Signature T (Delaware Museum, first revise proof (copy 2)) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Poems. A New Edition (1881), proof Signature T (Delaware Museum, final proof) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 20 (circa) 0 The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 2 (1886) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1886 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0