Heart's Hope (corrected holograph copy, Bancroft Collection)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Heart's Hope
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1871
Type of Manuscript: holograph pen and ink fair copy
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Delaware Art Museum, Bancroft Collection
Catalog Number: Box 22
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Digital images courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R.
Bancroft Collection.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is the earliest text of the sonnet, though the revisions are probably from much later, some from as late as early 1881 when he was preparing to include the sonnet in the Ballads and Sonnets .