On the Field of Waterloo Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1849 October
iambic pentameter abbaaccadeffed 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>This interesting sonnet should be compared with the very different sentiments expressed by Byron in his various famous verse reflections on Waterloo (see especially the Waterloo stanzas in <xref doc="a."> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Childe Harold's Pilgrimage</hi> , Cantos III). The religious ideas that shape DGR's secular view of the world produces his characteristically indifferent response. The tone is congruent with his cool, even cynical, attitude to contemporary political affairs. (Like Byron, however, he was anything but cool and indifferent to disfunctional social circumstances.)

Textual History: Composition

DGR wrote the poem late in October 1849.

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First printed in 1895 by WMR (see <hi rend="i">Family Letters</hi> , II. 79 ) and collected thereafter.

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Manuscript text from DGR's letter to WMR See WMR's note (1911). Manuscript text from DGR's letter to WMR Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 18 October 1849 DGR 1849 October 18 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His Family-Letters with a Memoir (Volume Two) William Michael Rossetti 1970 0 A Series of Holograph MSS 1849-1880 (Library of Congress) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1849-1880 0 A Series of Holograph MSS 1849-1880 (Library of Congress) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1849-1880 0