Sonnet to Thomas Woolner (First Snow, 9 February 1853) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1853 February 9
abbaaccadefdef iambic pentameter 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 is an epistolary sonnet sent to Woolner, who had emigrated to Australia in July 1852. Its form thus recalls the various poems and sonnets DGR had written to WMR and the other PRB brethren in the fall of 1849 when he and Hunt went to the continent together. The wordplay on the final word of line four, “rime”, is the pivot for the sonnet, recollecting the days when DGR and Woolner and the other PRB were writing poems together in London. The word nicely points the distance that the sonnet laments—between the north that is London and the south that is Australia.</p> <p>No manuscript of the sonnet is known.</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p/> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="printhist"> <head>Printing History</head> <p>First published by WMR in 1895 in his <bibl> <xref doc="a.pr5246.a43.rad"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Memoir</hi> , 165 and collected thereafter.

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1911 See WMR's note (1911). 1911 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 One) William Michael Rossetti 1895 0