Supreme Surrender (corrected draft, Princeton/Troxell collection)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Sovereign Service
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1869 (September or early October)
Type of Manuscript: corrected draft
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Troxell Collection, Princeton U. Library
Catalog Number: 23283
Physical Description
Paper: 18 x 11.5cm
Other Physical Features: Pencil copy
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is one of two MS copies of the sonnet in the Troxell Collection; both are early texts, but the other—although it has none of the variants shown here—is the prior text. Both of the Troxell copies were made after the copy in the Ashley Library.
Textual History: Composition
This is an early text and may date from August 1869, if it wasn't written even earlier—in the spring-summer of 1868.
Textual History: Revision
This text shows clearly the kinds of alternative readings that DGR's stylistic habits continually drove him to.