Lilith—From Goethe Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1866
translation <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>The text is most important for the relation it bears to (a) DGR's various treatments of the figure and myth of Lilith (see e.g. the material associated with the double work <xref doc="a.2-1867.s205.raw"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Lady Lilith</hi> ); and (b) DGR's early interest in Goethe's <hi rend="i">Faust</hi> , for which he made several illustrations (see <hi rend="i">Faust: Mephistopheles Outside Gretchen's Cell</hi> . The little drawing of Lilith as a snake lady is especially pertinent.

Textual History: Composition

Composed in 1866, the only known manuscript is part of Notebook I in the Duke University Library. The notebook has material dating between 1863-1868.

Textual History: Revision

Production History

Reception

Iconographic

Printing History

First published posthumously (in part) by WMR in his 1886 <hi rend="i">Collected Works</hi> , and collected thereafter in his 1911 text. The full text of DGR's translation, however, is the Notebook manuscript text.

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Translation

DGR translates a brief section of the famous Brocken Scene in <hi rend="i">Faust</hi> (Act IV scene 2).

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Bibliographic

Notebook manuscript text See WMR's note, (1911)
Notebook manuscript text The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 2 (1886) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1886 0 Notebook Pages (Notebook I, Duke Library) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1863-1869 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0