The Germ - Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Various
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By Christina Rossetti: "Repining." This rather long poem, written in December 1847 on a still broader scale, was never republished by the authoress, although all her other poems in "The Germ" were so. She did not think that its deservings were such as to call for republication. I apprehend that herein she exercised a wise discretion: none the less, when I was compiling the volume of her "New Poems," issued in 1896, I included "Repining"--for I think that some of the considerations which apply to the works of an author while living do not remain in anything like full force after death. By Dante G. Rossetti: "The Carillon, Antwerp and Bruges." These verses, and some others further on in "The Germ," were written during the brief trip, in Paris and Belgium, which my brother made along with Holman-Hunt in the autumn of 1849. He did not republish "The Carillon"; but he left in MS. an abridged form of it, with the title "Antwerp and Bruges," and this I included in his "Collected Works," 1886. The only important change was the omission of stanzas 1 and 4. By Dante G. Rossetti: "From the Cliffs, Noon." Altering some phrases in this lyric, and adding two stanzas, Rossetti republished it under the name of "The Sea-limits." By W. M. Rossetti: "Fancies at Leisure." The first four were written to _bouts-rimés_: not the fifth, "The Fire Smouldering," which is, I think, as old as 1848, or even 1847. By John L. Tupper: "Papers of the MS. Society; No. 1, An Incident in the Siege of Troy." This grotesque outburst, though sprightly and |
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