Born in 1830, Christina Rossetti began composing verse at the age
of eleven and continued to write for the remaining fifty-three
years of her life. Her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, himself a
poet and painter, soon recognised her genius and urged her to
publish her poems. By the time of her death in 1894, Christina had
written more than eleven hundred poems and had published over nine
hundred of them. Although she is regarded as the greatest woman
poet of the Victorian period, there has not been until now and
authoritative edition of her poetry. In this second volume of the
three-volume The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti, R.W. Crump
continues the editorial standards she established n Volume I,
published in 1979. She gives the reader a comprehensive text with
notes revealing Christina's process of composition and revision and
her painstaking concern for the technical details of her work. The
variant readings in the notes are taken from extant manuscripts,
individual poems as published or privately printed before being
incorporated into her published collections, and all the English
and American editions of her poems through William Michael
Rossetti's The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
(1904). A special feature of both Volumes I and II is a complete
list of holographs and their locations. Volume II contains
Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872), A Pageant and Other Poems
(1881), and Verses (1893), as well as the poems added to these
volumes after their original publication. Volume III contains poems
Christina published but did not include in any of her collections
as well as poems that have not previously appeared in print.
General
| Imprint: |
Louisiana State University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 1986 |
| First published: |
February 1986 |
| Authors: |
Christina Rossetti
|
| Editors: |
R.W. Crump
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 43mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
525 |
| Edition: |
A variorum ed |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8071-1246-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8071-1246-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780807112465 |
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