Autumn Song (
Musical Review text)
DGR
Production Description
Document Title: At the Fall of the Leaf
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1877 (after)
Provenance
Current Location: Alderman Library, University of Virginia
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: By permission of the South African National Gallery
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The printed note accompanying the poem describes it as “the first of two unpublished poems” that the editor proposed to print. No second poem was published. The text was supplied to the periodical by Edward Dannreuther, to whom “a copy was given by the poet” and “one of whose finest songs (also unpublished) is founded on it”.
The poem had in fact been published several years earlier (in 1877).