Sunday Morning: Protestant Church Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1849?
varying iambic trimeter and tetrameter dramatic monologue
<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>See the commentary for this poem's companion dramatic monologue, <xref doc="a.57-1849.raw"> <title level="wrk"> “Sunday Morning. Catholic Church” , which is fair copied before this dramatic monologue on the only known manuscript. Both poems are closely related to the pair of sonnets DGR wrote for his sisters around 1848, “The Church Porches” .

Textual History: Composition

The precise date of the poem is not known but the physical characteristics of the manuscript, the handwriting, and the subject matter make it an early work. It could have been written as early as 1847.

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South African National Gallery manuscript South African National Gallery manuscript Sunday Morning: Catholic Church Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1849? 0