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WMR, DGR Designer and Writer, 219-220
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Baum, ed., House of Life, 145-146
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WMR, DGR Designer and Writer, 219-220
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Baum, ed., House of Life, 145-146
Editorial glosses and textual notes are available in a pop-up window. Line numbering reflects the structure of the 1881 Ballads and Sonnets first edition text.
This collection contains 15 texts and images, including:
1881 Ballads and Sonnets first edition text
Scholarly Commentary
IntroductionÂ
As usual, Baum concentrates on what he calls âthe biographic parableâ, even as he insists that the sonnet defines a general condition of âLife-thwartedâ love. DGR's procedure in all of the âHouse of Lifeâ sonnets has been to multiply the referential and intertextual connections, therebyâas in this caseâemphasizing the complexity of the situation of loving: endless and proliferating pleasure bound up with endless and prolifering frustration and loss.
Textual History: CompositionÂ
Four integral manuscripts survive. The earliest is the corrected copy in the Princeton composite âHouse of Lifeâ sequence. Another more lighty corrected copy is in the Fitzwilliam composite âHouse of Lifeâ sequence. There is as well a fair copy in the Bancroft collection (probably copy text for the 1881 printing), and another in the âKelmscott Love Sonnetsâ sequence.
Printing HistoryÂ
First published in the 1881 Ballads and Sonnets and collected thereafter.