Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 10 September 1871
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 10 September 1871
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1871 September 10
Type of Manuscript: letter
Person to Whom the Manuscript was Assigned: William Michael Rossetti
Scribe: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: University of British Columbia Library
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This letter contains significant texts of two of DGR's poems, “Soothsay” and “The Cloud Confines”. The letter also includes an important discussion of the composition of “Rose Mary”, as well as mention of the painting which, with its enclosed sonnet, is a key document for explicating DGR's late and difficult poem Water Willow .