Repining

Repining Christina Rossetti 1 1847 December <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>As with all of CR's poems published in <title level="per"> <hi rend="i">The Germ</hi> , this short piece appeared pseudonymously as the work of “Ellen Alleyn”. It was first reprinted posthumously in WMR's edition of his sister's <hi rend="i">New Poems</hi> (1896).

Textual History: Composition

December 1847. The manuscript title is “An Argument”. (The MS is in the Bodleian Library.)

Textual History: Revision

Production History

Reception

Iconographic

Printing History

First printed in The Germ 3, pages 111-117.

Pictorial

Historical

Literary

The influence of Tennyson's “Mariana” is evident in the general conception of the tale. New Testament allusions are laid in discreetly; their presence turns the poem from a secular tale to a religious allegory.

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Germ text Luke 2:29 Galatians 6:7 Germ text The Germ (British Library Copy, third issue) William Michael Rossetti 1850 March 31 0 The Germ (1901 Facsimile Reprint, issue 3) William Michael Rossetti 1901 0