London to Folkstone (half-past one to half-past five)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1849 September 27
Genre: epistle

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is the first poem in DGR's letter to his brother of 27 September 1849, the first letter he sent back to England from his Pre-Raphaelite trip to Paris and Belgium with Holman Hunt. WMR later collected the many poems that DGR wrote on the trip into the composite sequence he titled “A Trip to Paris and Belgium”.

Printing History

First published by WMR in his edition of 1886 and collected thereafter.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 12-1849.raw.xml