From Dawn to Noon Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1873
abbaabbacdcddc iambic pentameter sonnet
<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>Both WMR and Baum focus attention on paraphrasing the sonnet, which to Baum exhibits “a perplexing looseness of . . . sentence structure”. Both seem to take the elaborate figuration at face (that is to say, psycho-biographical) value when they might well have noted, what seems obvious, that the sonnet is a kind of allegorical presentation of DGR's compositional method. In that sense the poem is indeed very personal. The sonnet glosses the visionary perplexities that continually emerge and metastasize through the sequence, as DGR re-thinks his poems by re-writing them or re-organizing them, thus generating a perpetually shifting set of perspectives. </p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>Five integral manuscripts of the sonnet survive: a <xref doc="a.6-1873.delms.rad">corrected copy</xref> in the Delaware/Bancroft collection; and four fair copies, <xref doc="a.22-1881.troxell.rad" workcode="6-1873" from="[42]">one</xref> in the Troxell composite <title level="wrk">“House of Life” sequence, another in the Bodleian “Kelmscott Love Sonnets”, a copy enclosed in a letter to Thomas Hake (22 September 1871), and the May Morris copy in the Fitzwilliam composite “House of Life” sequence. (For the manuscript sent to Hake see Fredeman, <hi rend="i">Correspondence</hi> , 71.153).

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First published in the 1881 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> and collected thereafter.

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WMR, <hi rend="i">DGR Designer and Writer</hi> , 242-243 Baum, ed., <hi rend="i">House of Life</hi> , 190-191

1881 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> first edition text See WMR's note (1911) 1881 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> first edition text The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vol. 1 (1886) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1886 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), first edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 October 17 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), second edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1882), fourth edition Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1882 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), (author's proofs, British Library copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 April-June 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature R (Delaware Museum, first author's proof) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 5 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature R (Delaware Museum, first revise, copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 9 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature R (Beinecke Library, first revise, author's copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 9 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature R (Delaware Museum, first revise, copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 9 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature R (Delaware Museum, second revise) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 10 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature R (Delaware Museum, third revise, uncorrected copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti May 1881 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature R (Delaware Museum, third revise, uncorrected copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature R (Delaware Museum, third revise, uncorrected copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature R (Delaware Museum, third revise, uncut proof sheets) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature R (Delaware Museum, final proof) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 27 0 The House of Life, A Sonnet Sequence (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Princeton/Troxell collection) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869-1881 0 The House of Life (composite manuscript posthumously arranged, Fitzwilliam Museum) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1845 - 1881 0 From Dawn to Noon (Delaware corrected copy) DGR 1873 0 The Bodleian Notebook (“Kelmscott Love Sonnets”) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1874 0 Letter to Thomas Hake 22 Sept 1871 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1871 September 22 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0