Love's Fatality Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1871
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<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>As usual, Baum concentrates on what he calls “the biographic parable”, even as he insists that the sonnet defines a general condition of “Life-thwarted” love. DGR's procedure in all of the <xref doc="a.22-1881.raw"> <title level="wrk">“House of Life” sonnets has been to multiply the referential and intertextual connections, thereby—as in this case—emphasizing the complexity of the situation of loving: endless and proliferating pleasure bound up with endless and prolifering frustration and loss.

Textual History: Composition

Four integral manuscripts survive. The earliest is the corrected copy in the Princeton composite “House of Life” sequence. Another more lighty corrected copy is in the Fitzwilliam composite “House of Life” sequence. There is as well a fair copy in the Bancroft collection (probably copy text for the 1881 printing), and another in the “Kelmscott Love Sonnets” sequence.

Textual History: Revision

Production History

Reception

Iconographic

Printing History

First published in the 1881 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> and collected thereafter.

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WMR, <hi rend="i">DGR Designer and Writer</hi> , 219-220 Baum, ed., <hi rend="i">House of Life</hi> , 145-146

1881 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> first edition text See WMR's note (1911) Another reference to Orpheus and Eurydice (and of course, via that image, to other related images that recur in the sequence: the image of the pilgrim wanderer, the image of the wandering of the Jewish people (see for instance “The Monochord” , where both of these figures appear). 1881 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> first edition text The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 1 (1886) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1886 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), first edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 October 17 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), second edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1882), fourth edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1882 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), (author's proofs, British Library copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 April-June 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature P (Delaware Museum, 4 May author's proof, copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 4 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature P (Delaware Museum, 4 May author's proof, copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 4 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature P (Delaware Museum, 6 May proof, copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 6 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature P (Delaware Museum, 9 May proof, copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 9 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature P (Delaware Museum, 9 May proof, copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 9 0 The House of Life, A Sonnet Sequence (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Princeton/Troxell collection) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869-1881 0 Love's Fatality (Delaware fair copy) DGR 1871 0 The House of Life (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Fitzwilliam Museum) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1845 - 1881 0 The Bodleian Notebook (“Kelmscott Love Sonnets”) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1874 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0