There's an eminent Poet named Morris

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1873?
Subject: William Morris
Rhyme: a3a3b2b2a3
Meter: iambic

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This limerick on Morris was not included by WMR among the limericks in his 1911 edition. The only known copy is housed among the Morris papers in the British Library. It has never been printed among DGR's works.

A general commentary on DGR's limericks is available.

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Source File: 37cc-1869.raw.xml