Epigram on Robert Buchanan Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1878 (ca.)
epigram <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 epigram—which WMR called, not without reason, “unpublishable”, seems to be a late thrust at Buchanan. The verses were drafted in a <xref doc="a.nb0004.duke.rad" from="[31]" to="[32]" workcode="46-1871">notebook</xref> around 1878. The notebook context suggests a close relation between this epigram and the sequence of aphoristic texts that DGR eventually culled for his poem <xref doc="a.34-1871.raw"> <title level="wrk">“Soothsay” . Also closely related is the fragment “Anomalies” , which may have been originally written to be included among the “Soothsay” texts.

Textual History: Composition

Four texts or partial texts are known, none titled. Two are relatively finished: the copy with one correction at Princeton, and the fair notebook copy at Duke. These texts vary slightly from each other and the latter has what appears to be a pair of additional lines at the end. The Duke notebook also has a draft of the epigram, and one of the Ashley notebooks has a fragment.

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The epigram has not previously been published. It was first noticed by Baum in his Analytical List of Manuscripts in the Duke University Library (see pages 12, 36, 74).

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Duke Library Notebook II
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