Alas, So Long! Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1881
a4 4ba4b3b4a2c3c3 iambic with variations lyric
<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>Adopting the genre of the song allows DGR to depersonalize somewhat this lyric, whose subject—DGR's dead wife—would otherwise inflect it with the kind of romantic style he always strove to avoid. Comparing this work with any number of similar poems by DGR's sister is instructive. Both solicit impersonal styles of address, but DGR's religious agnosticism, very evident in this poem, contrasts sharply with Christina's religious faith.</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p>The poem was written sometime in 1881. Three draft fragments survive, two in the small British Library notebooks (<xref doc="a.22p-1880.blnb3.rad" from="[15r]" workcode="9-1881">one</xref> in Notebook III, <xref doc="a.22p-1880.blnb4.rad" from="[31r]" workcode="9-1881">the other</xref> in Notebook IV), the <xref doc="a.notebookpage.rosenbachms.rad" from="[1v]" workcode="9-1881">third</xref> in the Rosenbach Library, Philadelphia.. The <xref doc="a.lyrics.prinms.rad" from="16" workcode="9-1881">printer's copy</xref> is the only surviving integral manuscript.</p> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="printhist"> <head>Printing History</head> <p>First printed in the <xref doc="a.2-1881.1stedn.rad" workcode="9-1881" from="297"> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> first edition and collected thereafter.

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<hi rend="i">Ballads and Sonnets</hi> first edition text <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 U (Delaware Museum, author's first revise proof) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 10 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature U (Delaware Museum, first author's proof) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 6 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature U (Delaware Museum, final proof, copy 1) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature U (Delaware Museum, final proof, copy 2) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Ballads and Sonnets (1881), proof Signature U (Delaware Museum, final proof, copy 3) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1881 May 18 (circa) 0 Small Notebook 3 (British Library) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1871-1879? 0 Small Notebook 4 (British Library) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1879-1880 0 Lyrics, &c. (Princeton/Troxell bound manuscript volume) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1880-1881 0 Notebook Page (Rosenbach Library) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1880 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0