DGR wrote the poem as part of his letter to James Collinson of 25 October 1849, a letter
written toward the end of DGR's and Holman Hunt's trip to Paris and Belgium. The
manuscript text
in the letter is quite different from the version DGR published in 1850. The latter, in fact, is
broken off before DGR was able to compose a suitable conclusion for the lines.
Printing History
First published (in a text much revised from the manuscript text DGR sent to his brother) in
The Germ, March 1850
(page 126);
first collected in WMR's 1886 collected edition and
kept thereafter.
This collection contains 8 texts and images, including:
Manuscript text from DGR's letter
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
DGR wrote the poem as part of his letter to James Collinson of 25 October 1849, a letter written toward the end of DGR's and Holman Hunt's trip to Paris and Belgium. The manuscript text in the letter is quite different from the version DGR published in 1850. The latter, in fact, is broken off before DGR was able to compose a suitable conclusion for the lines.
Printing History
First published (in a text much revised from the manuscript text DGR sent to his brother) in The Germ, March 1850 (page 126); first collected in WMR's 1886 collected edition and kept thereafter.