THE HOUSE OF LIFE: A SONNET SEQUENCE.

ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel.

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ISBN 10: 1843841134 ISBN 13: 9781843841135

Published by D. S. Brewer, Cambridge, 2007

Language: English

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8vo. Pp: xxii, 301. First Edition thus. Publisher's brown boards lettered in gilt at spine with title label pasted to front. Variorum edition.ISBN: 9781843841135 Very good plus. Top of spine frayed at front corner. Top of spine bumped. Bottom of spine bumped.

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Title: THE HOUSE OF LIFE: A SONNET SEQUENCE.
Publisher: D. S. Brewer, Cambridge
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1843841134
ISBN 13: 9781843841135
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Youth and Change
Part II: Change and Fate
Appendix 1: Dating and Ordonnance
Appendix 2: Poems: Proof Stages
Appendix 3: Poems: Chronology 1868-71
Appendix 4: Poems: Bibliographical Summaries
Appendix 5: Ballads and Sonnets: Chronology 1879-82
Appendix 6: Ballads and Sonnets: Bibliographical Summaries
Appendix 7: Locations of Sources
Appendix 8: Unpublished and Excluded Sonnets
Bibliography of Works Cited or Consulted

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A magnificent scholarly achievement of the most focused, intelligent, and thorough kind. MLR

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