This is a bound copy of the first twelve monthly issues of The Broadway Annual
Ives points out that periodicals published internationally frequently show variations in textual and physical characteristics based on where they were published. Contents likewise varied “both to accommodate copyright restrictions and to serve the interests of a different readership” (71). Partly because the major periodical indexes do not record differences between American and British copies and partly because of the rarity of copies, these potential variations are difficult to ascertain (94).
Although
This transcription includes a full-page illustration by Arthur Boyd Houghton opposite the beginning of WMR's poem.
Studies in Bibliography
The Archives of George Routledge & Co., 1853-1902
Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900
Rossetti Papers 1862-1870
Perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart; one of the indivisible primary faculties or sentiments which give direction to the character of man.”
1849.*
* The reader will observe the already remote date at which this poem was written.
Those were the days when the prĉ-Raphaelite movement in painting was first
started. I, who was as much mixed up and interested in it as any person not
practically an artist could well be, entertained the idea that the like principles
might be carried out in poetry; and that it would be possible, without losing the
poetical, dramatic, or even tragic tone and impression, to approach nearer to the
actualities of dialogue and narration than had ever yet been done. With an unpractised
hand I tried the experiment; and the result is this blank-verse tale, which is now
published, not indeed without some revision, but without the least alteration in its
general character and point of view.—