Equal Troth
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Love-Measure
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1871
Type of Manuscript: draft
Collation: 1 page
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: British Library
Catalog Number: Ashley 3852
Physical Description
Paper: Ruled white laid paper torn from a notebook
Dimensions of Document: 18 x 21.9 cm
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: By permission of the British Library
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The manuscript leaf comes from one of DGR's notebooks and it shows that he may have been using it at different times—although it is possible that when he was drafting the sonnet in 1871 he was trying out a fresh approach to the ballad (which he began in the late 1850s).