The House of Life by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Sonnet-Sequence - A Variorum Edition with Introduction and Notes (Hardcover, New Ed)

New and definitive edition of Rossetti's masterpiece, with full notes and apparatus. Described by W.S. Blunt as 'the greatest of the all the great Victorian poems', this sequence of 103 sonnets was composed between 1847 and 1881, and finally published complete in Ballads and Sonnets just six months before Rossetti's death. These passionate celebrations of the ecstasy of love threatened by change and Fate inspired the Aesthetes and Decadents of the eighties and nineties, leading to Walter Pater's Mona Lisa and Oscar Wilde's Salome. This new edition of Rossetti's poetic masterpiece is presented here with Introduction, Notes and definitive texts and date. All variants are given for each poem (some sonnets exist in as many as eight versions), and each sonnet is given a documented date of composition and first publication. The illustrations include some rarely-seen images, notably a self-portrait by Elizabeth Siddal, the poet's wife, in whose coffin he placed his original poems, only to exhume them eight years later. ROGER C. LEWIS is Emeritus Professor of English, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada.

General

Imprint:	D.S. Brewer
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Dante Gabriel Rossetti • Roger C. Lewis (Royalty Account)
Editors:	Roger C. Lewis (Royalty Account)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	327
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-84384-113-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	1-84384-113-4
Barcode:	9781843841135

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