Dante Gabriel Rossetti

 

 

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Literatur: Rossetti
Literatur: Poetologische Lyrik
Literatur: Sonett

 

5   A Sonnet is a moment's monument, –
   Memorial from the Soul's eternity
   To one dead deathless hour.   Look that it be,
Whether for lustral rite or dire portent,
Of its own arduous fulness reverent:
10      Carve it in ivory or in ebony,
   As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see
Its flowering crest impearled and orient.

A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals
   The soul, – its converse, to what Power 'tis due: –
  Whether for tribute to the august appeals
   Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue,
It serve; or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath,
In Charon's palm it pay the toll to Death.

 

 

 

 

Erstdruck und Druckvorlage

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Ballads and Sonnets.
London: Ellis and White 1881, S. 161.

Die Textwiedergabe erfolgt nach dem ersten Druck (Editionsrichtlinien).

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Literatur: Rossetti

Donnelly, Brian: Reading Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Painter as Poet. Farnham u.a. 2015.

Genette, Gérard: Paratexte. Das Buch vom Beiwerk des Buches. Frankfurt a.M. 2001 (= suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft, 1510).

Holmes, John: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence. Aldershot 2005.

Jamison Anne: Poetics en Passant. Redefining the Relationship between Victorian and Modern Poetry. New York 2009.

Leighton, Angela: On Form. Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word. Oxford 2007.

Prettejohn, Elizabeth (Hrsg.): The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites. Cambridge u.a. 2012.

 

 

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