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The Blessed Damozel (1872 autograph MS fragment)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name: 1-1847.princefrag
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Production Description

Document Title: [untitled]
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date: 1872 (circa)
Type of Manuscript: MS.printer
Scribe: DGR

Provenance

Current Location: Princeton University Library
Catalog Number: AM21395
    Note: The manuscript's shelf mark is CO 185.

Physical Description

Other Physical Features: one small sheet, 17x10.8cm. On the verso are several bibliographical notes on the source of a quotation about Punchinello.

Description of the Work


Commentary

Textual History: Composition

This fragment was sent by DGR to his publisher F. S. Ellis in 1872 for inclusion in the sixth edition of DGR's Poems, first issued in 1870. The 1873 Tauchnitz Edition of the same book also carried this text, which is a revision of the stanza as it had been previously printed.
The manuscript has two notes by other hands—one at the top, by Ellis, the other below the text in an unknown hand authenticating the manuscript as DGR's.








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Manuscript Addition
Transcription: Instead of verse 7 of “The Blessed
Damozel.”
Description: Note by F. S. Ellis at the top of the page

Manuscript Addition
Transcription: Autograph of D. G. Rossetti
Description: Note in unknown hand, in pencil, below the text.

        Around her, lovers, newly met
             'Mid deathless love's acclaims,
        Spoke evermore among themselves
             Their rapturous new names;
        And the souls mounting up to God
             Went by her like thin flames.