Sonnet ("O thou whose name being alone aloud") (partial draft manuscript)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: [Untitled]
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1848
Type of Manuscript: partial draft copy
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Delaware Art Museum, Bancroft Collection
Catalog Number: Box 22 no. 58
Physical Description
Paper: writing paper, measurements: 18 x 22.7 cm
Watermark: watermarked
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Digital images courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R.
Bancroft Collection.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is a partial draft of the sonnet, which is unpublished. It is located in the Delaware Art Museum, which also has a complete draft of the text. The two texts are quite different.
Textual History: Composition
Like the complete draft manuscript, the text of this partial draft is written on the same paper as the text of the pair of early sonnets titled “Filii Filia”; the first of these two comes down to us as “For an Annunciation. Early German”. The sonnet is therefore very early and probably was written in 1848, perhaps as early as 1847.
Printing History
Three lines were published as a fragment by WMR in 1911.