The Last Three from Trafalgar (At the Anniversary Banquet, 21st
October 187-)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
General Description
Date: 1878 October 21
Rhyme: abbaabbacddccd
Meter: iambic pentameter
Genre: sonnet
Bibliography
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Sharp, DGR. A Record and a Study, 403.
Annotations
Editorial glosses and textual notes are available in a pop-up window. Line numbering reflects the structure of the The first edition of the 1881 Ballads and Sonnets..
This collection contains 10 texts and images, including:
This collection contains 10 texts and images, including:
The first edition of the 1881 Ballads and Sonnets.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
DGR's letters do not mention having attended the the banquet that prompted this sonnet. The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on 21 October 1805.
Textual History: Composition
A single manuscript survives, a fair copy in a bound volume of manuscripts at Princeton.
Printing History
First published in the 1881 Ballads and Sonnets and collected thereafter.