Love's Pageant and The Cloud Confines (Beinecke Library fair copy)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Love's Pageant (H of L)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1871
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Collation: one leaf
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Beinecke Library
Physical Description
Paper: unruled white laid paper
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: © Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is the earliest of the four surviving manuscripts. The small revision in line 6 indicates the “occasional” and immediate character of the poem as originally composed.
On the verso of the manuscript is a fair copy of the fourth stanza of “The Cloud Confines”