Of My Lady. In Death

Of My Lady. In Death Thomas Woolner 1 1849 <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 first number of <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">The Germ</hi> opened with two poems by Thomas Woolner (1825-1892), the sculptor-poet and minor PRB member. This is the second of the two. Both show the clear influence of DGR's translations from Dante and the other early Italian poets. The style of Woolner's the poem is striking, at once studied and fresh. The effect is of a contemporary poem that has been thoroughly (and deliberately) infused with a set of cultural and aesthetic attitudes associated with a much earlier historical frame of reference.

Woolner eventually published this poem, like its companion, in his volume titled <hi rend="i">My Beautiful Lady</hi> (1863; 2nd ed. 1864; 3rd ed. 1866).

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First printed in <hi rend="i">The Germ</hi> no. 1, pages 5-9

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The poem can be usefully compared with DGR's <hi rend="i">The Blessed Damozel</hi> as well as the early Italian models that stand behind DGR's poem. An early version of DGR's poem appeared in <hi rend="i">The Germ</hi> , no. 2, pages 80-83.

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Fredeman 149-150

<hi rend="i">The Germ</hi> , no. 1 pages 5-10 The Germ (British Library Copy, first issue) William Michael Rossetti 1850 January 1 0 The Germ (1901 Facsimile Reprint, issue 1) William Michael Rossetti 1901 0