Parted Presence

Parted Presence Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1872-3 <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 presence of the fair copy in DGR's <xref doc="a.9-1874.raw">gift book</xref> of poems for Jane Morris strongly suggests that the poem is associated with his thoughts of her, and indeed that it is addressed to her—perhaps written after they had both left Kelmscott in 1871 after their extended time together in the summer-autumn of that year.</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>WMR dates this work to 1875, but the fair copy in DGR's <xref doc="a.9-1874.bodleianms.rad" workcode="3-1875" from="30">gift book</xref> to Jane Morris of 1874 shows that it was written earlier.</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 in the 1881 <xref doc="a.2-1881.1stedn.rad" from="282" workcode="3-1875"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> and collected thereafter.

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The Bodleian fair copy Echoes Shelley's <hi rend="i">Prometheus Unbound</hi> IV. 10-14. See WMR's note (1911). The Bodleian fair copy 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 T (Delaware Museum, first author's proof) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 6 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature T (Delaware Museum, first author's proof, duplicate copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 6 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature T (Delaware Museum, final proof, copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature T (Delaware Museum, final proof, copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature T (Delaware Museum, final proof, copy 3) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 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 Lyrics, &c. (Princeton/Troxell bound manuscript volume) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1880-1881 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0