Winter Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1874 February
abbaaccadeedde 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>The sonnet contrasts sharply with its companion sonnet <xref doc="a.10-1873.raw"> <title level="wrk">“Spring” written nearly a year earlier. The difference is not merely in the subject matter but in the stylistic treatment. The detail recorded in this sonnet is highly particular and immediate—not at all unlike the early PRB manner. The “Spring” sonnet is, by contrast, a study in imaginative surmise.

Textual History: Composition

DGR wrote the sonnet sometime shortly before 23 February 1874, as he told his mother in a letter of that date in which he enclosed a copy of the sonnet. There is an early draft fragment of three lines preserved in the second of the small Ashley note books. Two integral manuscripts survive: a fair copy from 1874 in the Bodleian, and the printer's copy manuscript for the 1881 printing.

Textual History: Revision

Production History

Reception

Iconographic

Printing History

First published in the 30 May 1874 issue of <hi rend="i">The Athenaeum</hi> as the first of the two sonnets headed together “Thames Valley Sonnets” . DGR then republished it as a separate sonnet in the 1881 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> and it has been collected thereafter.

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The first edition of the 1881 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> . See WMR's note (1911). The first edition of the 1881 <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> . 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 Y (Delaware Museum, first author's proof) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 7 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature Y (Delaware Museum, first revise proof) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 10 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature Y (Delaware Museum, third revise, author's copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature Y (Delaware Museum, third revise, WMR's copy) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature Y (Delaware Museum, three printer's copies) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 10 0 Small Notebook 2 (British Library) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1871-1879? 0 Bodleian Notebook II DGR 1870-1880 ? 0 The Athenaeum, 1874, Part I 1874 January - 1874 June 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0 A Series of Holograph MSS 1849-1880 (Library of Congress) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1849-1880 0 A Series of Holograph MSS 1849-1880 (Library of Congress) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1849-1880 0 Sonnets and Fragments (Princeton/Troxell bound manuscript volume) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1848-1881 0