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Works. Ed W. M. Rossetti 1911. The standard edn.
Poems and translations. Introd by E. G. Gardner 1912 (Everyman).
Rossetti. 1912 (Royal Lib).
Poems and translations 1850–70. Oxford 1913 (OSA); Oxford 1914
(WC). 1914.
Selections from Rossetti and Morris. Ed H. M. Burton 1929.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Introd by John Buchan [nd].
Rossetti: an anthology. Ed F. L. Lucas, Cambridge 1933.
Poems, ballads and sonnets. Ed P. F. Baum, New York 1937.
Poems. Ed L. I. Howarth 1950.
Poems. Introd by O. Doughty. 1957 (Everyman).
The essential Rossetti. Selected by J. Hollander 1989.
Selected poems and translations. Ed C. Warner 1991.
§1
The first pbd poem, My sister’s sleep, was intercalated in an article by
Elizabeth Youatt in La Belle assemblée Sep 1848 (see Bentley, below).
The sonnet This is the Blesed Mary, pre-elect, appeared in the catalogue of
the Free Exhibition, 1849. The blessed damozel, Hand and soul, and 11
other pieces, mostly sonnets, were pbd in the 4 nos of Germ, Jan–Apr 1850.
Sister Helen appeared in the English edn of the Düsseldorf artists’
album, ed M. Howitt, Leipzig 1854; The burden of Nineveh, the 2nd
version of The blessed damozel, and The staff and the scrip were
included in Oxford and Cambridge Mag nos 8 and 11–12, 1856, rptd
with many changes in Crayon 1858 and New Path [Blessed damozel
only] 1863; 3 sonnets on pictures first appeared in W. M. Rossetti and A. C.
Swinburne, Notes on the Royal Academy exhibition, 1868 (pt 2).
Rossetti also contributed substantial portions to A. Gilchrist, Life of Blake,
1863, reviews of T. G. Hake to Academy 1871, 1873, and several poems and
prose works to Athenaeum, Century, Critic, Fortnightly Rev, N & Q ,
Spectator etc. Poems first appearing in miscellaneous vols are: Sudden
light, in Poems: an offering to Lancashire, ed Isa Craig 1863; Lost
days, in A welcome: original contributions in verse and prose, 1863;
Autumn song (MS), in Specimens from a cycle of English songs and
lyrics, the music by E. Dannreuther (priv ptd programme of the
musicale 18 June 1877); Raleigh’s cell in the Tower, in Sonnets of
three centuries, ed T. Hall Caine 1882; On certain Elizabethan
revivals, in T. Hall Caine, Recollections of Rossetti, 1882. Several
poems by Rossetti first appeared in vol 2 of Family letters with a memoir,
ed W. M. Rossetti 1895, below (detailed in W. M. Rossetti’s
Bibliography, above). For Sister Helen (1857) and Verses (1881), the first
a suspected, the second a confirmed T. J. Wise forgery, see J. Carter and H. G.
Pollard, An enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth-century
pamphlets, 1934, and Barker and Collins, above.
Sir Hugh the Heron: a legendary tale in four parts, by Gabriel
Rossetti Junior. 1843 (priv ptd by G. Polidori).
The early Italian poets from Ciullo d’Alcamo to Dante Alighieri
(1100–1200–1300) in the original metres, together with Dante’s
Vita nuova. 1861, 1874 (rev and rearranged as Dante and his
circle). Often rptd; ed S. Pucell with foreword by J. Wain,
Berkeley 1981.
Of life, love, and death: sixteen sonnets. Fortnightly Rev Mar 1869.
Hand and soul. 1869 (priv ptd).
Poems. 1870 (4 edns), 1871, 1872, Leipzig 1873 (Tauchnitz, rev with
memoir by F. Hueffer). First appearance of House of life. 2 private
printings (1869, 1870) preceded this vol. For the history of the pbn
of Poems 1870 and clarification of the several ‘trial books’, see J. C.
Troxell (in Colophon), R. N. Keane and Roger Lewis, below.
The stealthy school of criticism. Athenaeum 16 Dec 1871. A reply to
Buchanan, below.
Poems. A new edition. 1881. A revision of Poems 1870, with 4 new
poems and 3 trns, omitting House of life and 3 other sonnets.
Ballads and sonnets. 1881, 1881, 1882, Leipzig 1882 (Tauchnitz, with
expanded memoir by F. Hueffer). House of life expanded to 101
sonnets, Nuptial sleep dropped.
Rossetti, W. M. Some scraps of verse and prose by Rossetti. Pall Mall
Mag Dec 1898; New York 1898. All but 2 of these scraps appear in
Works 1911, above.
Lenore, by G. Bürger. Ed W. M. Rossetti 1900. Tr Rossetti.
Henry the leper [by Hartmann von Aue], paraphrased by Rossetti.
Ed W. P. Trent 2 vols Boston 1905.
The house of life: a sonnet sequence. Ed P. F. Baum, Cambridge MA
1928.
Rossetti: an analytical list of manuscripts in the Duke University
Library, with hitherto unpublished verse and prose. Ed P. F.
Baum, Durham NC 1931.
Howe, M. L. Some unpublished stanzas by Rossetti. MLN 48 1933.
On Border song.
The blessed damozel: the unpublished manuscript, texts and collation.
Ed P. F. Baum, Chapel Hill NC 1937.
Rossetti’s Sister Helen. Ed J. C. Troxell, New Haven CT 1939.
Jan Van Hunks. Ed J. R. Wahl, New York 1952. 2 earlier edns ed T.
Watts-Dunton (1912), and M. Bell (1929).
The Kelmscott love sonnets. Ed J. R. Wahl, Cape Town 1954. From
House of life mss in Bodleian.
Fisher, B. J., (ed). Rossetti’s ‘William and Marie’: hints of the future.
ELN 9, Dec 1971 (first printing of text of the poem, reproduced
from ms at Duke).
American editions and collections
In 1870, Rossetti’s authorised American publisher, Roberts Brothers of Boston,
issued 2 edns of Poems: 250 copies from the English sheets with a new title
page and binding, and a reset reprint from the 1st edn; Roberts also pbd a
stereotype reprint of Ballads and sonnets in 1881; a 2-vol companion set of
Ballads and sonnets and Poems: a new edition in 1882, with contents
rearranged; a stereotype reprint of W. M. Rossetti’s 2-vol edn of the
Collected works; and a single-vol ‘Author’s edition’ of Complete poems
in 1887. Capitalising on D.G. R.’s death, 2 identical unauthorised and adulterated
edns of Poems were issued in 1883 by Lathrop in Boston and Alden in
New York. Some time after 1886, Crowell of New York issued a 1 vol stereotype
edn of the Lathrop–Alden text, adding W. M. R.’s 1886 preface and notes, 34
stray poems and 15 versicles and fragments, and indices of poems and first
lines, unique features that appear in no other edn of Rossetti’s works.
Reviews
For a selected listing of reviews of Rossetti’s vols pbd during his lifetime, see
section 29 in Fredeman, above. Rossetti’s paranoic aversion to reviews and
the controversy surrounding his manipulation of the press reception of his
Poems 1870 underscore the need for a more complete account of the reviews of
this vol. 25 reviews have been located, 14 of which, appearing in major British,
American and continental periodicals, are signed: P. P. Alexander,
Edinburgh Courant; Sidney Colvin, Pall Mall Gazette (21 Apr); J. R.
Dennett, North Amer Rev (Oct); H. Buxton Forman, Tinsley’s Mag
(Mar); T. G. Hake, NMM (June); Joseph Knight, 3 reviews: Globe (20
Apr), Sunday Times (1 May), and Graphic (14 May); J. W. Marston,
Athenaeum (1 May); William Morris, Academy, (14 May); A. Pichot,
Revue Britannique (June); W. J. Stillman, Putnam’s New Monthly
(July); A. C. Swinburne, Fortnightly Rev (May); Frederick Wedmore,
St James’s Mag (Apr). The authorship of another 11 have been identified,
though the reviews are unsigned: [Alfred Austin] Standard (26 May);
[Sidney Colvin] Westminster Rev (Jan 1871); [W. J. Courthope]
Quarterly Rev (Jan 1872); [W. D. Howells] Atlantic Monthly (July); [R.
H. Hutton] Spectator (11 June); [J. R. Lowell] Nation (New York) (14
July); [M. Oliphant] Blackwood’s Mag (Aug); [F. T. Palgrave?]
Saturday Rev (14 May); [W. Brighty Rands] Contemporary Rev
(June); [John Skelton] Fraser’s Mag, n.s. 1 (May). The most notorious
review was by Robert Buchanan, Contemporary Rev (Oct 1871), pbd
under the pseudonym Thomas Maitland and expanded in 1872 into the pam
The fleshly school of poetry and other phenomena of the day.14
unsigned reviews are known, 7 each in Britain and America: Broadway
(Oct); Guardian (5 Oct); John Bull (7 May); Literary World; New
Eclectic Mag (July); North Br Rev (July); Westminster Rev (1 July);
Harper’s Mag (Aug); Lippincott’s Mag (Sep); New Englander (Oct);