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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.
More than an index to the nine volumes of letters, this volume is a
concise guide to an entire cultural era seen through the lens of
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Volume 10 of The Correspondence of Dante
Gabriel Rossetti is the first ever analytical and biographical
index to all Rossetti's letters from 1835-82. It gives readers the
widest possible contextual access to all names of persons, places,
works of art, writings, movements, organizations and activities,
both physical and intellectual, mentioned in these letters with
their annotations and appendices. But this index, augmenting the
partial ones in Vols2 and 5, is far more than a simple listing of
names: it also serves as a subject index, providing mini-precis
descriptions of the information detailed in the annotated letter
texts. Subheadings within entries depend on the complexity of the
subject and may include letters to/from (for recipients) and lists
of artistic and literary works by Rossetti's correspondents, or
predecessors such as Blake, Keats and Coleridge. It is a concise
guide to an entire cultural era. Since Rossetti is the lens through
which all other entries are filtered, his own entry is divided into
multiple subheadings to facilitate easy access. The researcher can
quickly locate all references to the sonnet sequence The House of
Life, the various versions of the Proserpine picture or the complex
relationship of his drug use to Rossetti's life and work.
At last -- a complete new edition of the poetry of Robert Louis
Stevenson. During his lifetime Stevenson published A Child's Garden
of Verses (1885), Penny Whistles, Underwoods (1887) and Ballads
(1890). There were also various private press adventures in poetry
with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, and the posthumous Songs of Travel
(1895), and New Poems (1918). This new edition contains these
collections and also some of Stevenson's printed and manuscript
poems that have never been published in any collection. The edition
also identifies and restores various poems assembled by Stevenson
in his Notebooks, many of which were mutilated by members of The
Boston Bibliophile Society. The editor, Roger Lewis, has carefully
studied Stevenson's manuscripts and letters, identifying many
variants in individual poems and in orders of his collections, as
well as in the editorial procedures of a succession of RLS's
literary associates who claimed to be fulfilling his intentions or
acting on his authority. The ordering of this edition will follow
Stevenson's own final arrangement over unauthorised editorial
rearrangments or strict considerations of chronology. Complete and
accurate dates of composition and publication of individual poems
and of collections are given wherever possible. Appendices include
bibliographical description and location for manuscript and printed
sources of all poems in the edition; 'poems in process' - how
Stevenson sketched and revised during composition; notebooks -
bibliographical history and significance; chronology and ordonnance
of poetic units. There are also explanatory and textual notes.
Scots poems are glossed and annotated using The Concise Scots
Dictionary and web resources of the SNDA. A substantial
introduction covers the publishing histories of individual volumes
and literary influences, placing emphasis on Stevenson as a
Scottish poet and arguing for his best verse to be considered as
good as his best fiction. Key Features: * The only available
edition of RLS's complete poems * Includes poems never previously
published * Restores poems from RLS's notebooks mutilated by The
Boston Bibliophile Society * Offers fully-edited critical texts
with scholarly apparatus * Includes A Child's Garden of Verses,
Penny Whistles, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Pieces in Lallan and
Poems Written in America
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