Afterwards
Alternately titled: Unburied Death
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Unburied Death
Date of composition: 1848
Type of Manuscript: Draft manuscript
Provenance
Current Location: Duke University Library
Catalog Number: XXI. Eighteen Sonnets
Physical Description
Paper: unlined white notebook paper
Watermark: none
Dimensions of Document: 6 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Bibliography
- Baum,
Manuscripts in the Duke University Library, 15
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Special Collection Library, Duke University
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The title in this manuscript is DGR's, given in 1848. When WMR came to publish the poem after DGR's death, he changed it to “Afterwards”, a most revealing alteration given the associations that must surround the original title.