⦠Sharp, DGR. A Record and a Study, 403.
⦠Sharp, DGR. A Record and a Study, 403.
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The first edition of the 1881 Ballads and Sonnets.
Scholarly Commentary
IntroductionÂ
DGR's letters do not mention having attended the the banquet that prompted this sonnet. The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on 21 October 1805.
Textual History: CompositionÂ
A single manuscript survives, a fair copy in a bound volume of manuscripts at Princeton.
Printing HistoryÂ
First published in the 1881 Ballads and Sonnets and collected thereafter.