A work by the minor PRB painter James Collinson
(1825?-1881), now best known as the man CR thought to marry, but
eventually threw off. The poem is clearly in debt to DGR's early work,
and perhaps even more to
Keble's The Christian Year and, of course, to
the liturgy of the âJoyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries.â
The poem's subtitle, âA Record Typical of the Five Sorrowful
Mysteriesâ, underscores its typological methodologyâtaking
incidents (real and imagined) from the childhood of Jesus as
prefigurative of the consummating events of his mortal life.
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Germ text
Scholarly Commentary
IntroductionÂ
A work by the minor PRB painter James Collinson (1825?-1881), now best known as the man CR thought to marry, but eventually threw off. The poem is clearly in debt to DGR's early work, and perhaps even more to Keble's The Christian Year and, of course, to the liturgy of the âJoyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries.â The poem's subtitle, âA Record Typical of the Five Sorrowful Mysteriesâ, underscores its typological methodologyâtaking incidents (real and imagined) from the childhood of Jesus as prefigurative of the consummating events of his mortal life.
Printing HistoryÂ
First printed in The Germ 2, pages 49-56.