The Blessed Damozel (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- First Published: 1850
- Type of Work: Ballad
- Genres: Poetry, Ballad
- Subjects: Love or romance, Christianity, Women, Jesus Christ, Heaven, Angels, Eternity
The Poem
There are four versions of “The Blessed Damozel,” which was written in 1847, when Dante Gabriel Rossetti was eighteen years old. The first version was published in The Germ in 1850, the second in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine in 1856, the third in 1870 in Rossetti’s collection Poems, the fourth in Poems, 1881. The changes appearing in the second and third versions are generally regarded as improvements.
Many years after the poem was written, Rossetti is said to have attributed it to his admiration of Edgar Allan Poe’s...
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