Silent Noon (corrected draft, Rosenbach Library)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Silence
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1871
Type of Manuscript: holograph corrected draft
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Rosenbach Library
Physical Description
Watermark: Extra Satin
Dimensions of Document: 4 7/16 x 7 1/8 in.
Other Physical Features: This sonnet (as well as seven others) is written on paper identical
with the paper carrying the Rosenbach Library's fair copy of
“Transfigured Life”.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Digital images courtesy of the Rosenbach Library.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is one of the two earliest manuscripts of the poem, both having been scripteds in 1871. This text was copied directly after the other, the first draft.