Soothsay (British Library corrected copy)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Commandments
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1870 April
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Collation: [i-xii],[1-17]
Provenance
Current Location: British Library
Catalog Number: Ashley 3859
Physical Description
Paper: Written on one side only of two quarto leaves of ruled white laid
paper, and on both sides of the next four quarto leaves.
Watermark: “J ALLEN & SONS
SUPER FINE”
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: By permission of the British Library
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This manuscript of the poem is written and heavily revised. The text is on sheets torn from one of DGR's typical notebooks. Also part of the manuscript, copied and then cancelled at the end of the principal poem, is a fair copy of DGR's sonnet on William Blake.