Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: On Certain Elizabethan Revivals (Folger Library Manuscript)
Author: DGR
Date of Composition: 1870
Type of Manuscript: autograph fair copy with corrections
Scribe: DGR
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Manuscript Addition: This unpublished sonnet by Dante Gabriel Rossetti / (& in his handwriting)
was given to Mr Hall Caine / for his “Sonnets of Three Centuries”, but was afterwards /
withdrawn, from its being out of harmony with the body of / the author's work.
Manuscript Addition:
39 30
Added Text10
- O ruff-embastioned vast Elizabeth,
- Bush to these bushel-bellied casks of wine,
- Home-growth, 'tis true, but rank as turpentine,—
- What thought'st thou of What would we with such skittle-plays at death?
- Say, must we watch these brawlers' brandished lathe
- Or to their reeking wit our ears incline,
- Because all Castaly flowed crystalline
- In gentle Shakspeare's modulated beath?
- What! must our drama with the rat-pit vie,
- 10Nor the scene close while one is left to kill?
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Write thus, & be a poet! Hark, thou man
Added TextShall this be poetry? And thou—thou man
- Of blood, thou cannibalic Caliban,
- What shall be said to thee?—A poet?—Fie!
- “An honorable murderer, if you will.”
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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