Work Metadata

Manuscript

Three (one in part, one lost), variant, about 1880. A pencil draft with lines from various places in the poem was a working document, apparently focusing on places for possible revision (a 429).

Notes

Three (one in part, one lost), variant, about 1880. A pencil draft with lines from various places in the poem was a working document, apparently focusing on places for possible revision (a429).

Textual Notes

Division
1 is |
2 humble |
11 of |
13 fugitive |
Division
1 is |
2 humble |
3 denotes |
4 Transport's |
5 the |
6 England |
7 oblique |
8 vastly |
8 warmer - ||
9 but |

10 denying |
11 of |
12 that |
13 as |
14 Consternation] Conster - | nation
15 the |
16 Silvan |
Emendation
4 transport's] transports'
1 Troubadour] Gabriel
13 A fugitive Renown -] As covert as a fugitive

Publications

Letters (1894), 384, from the copy to Tuckerman (B); also LL (1924), 340; and Letters (1931), 373. The four disparate lines of the working document (A), arranged as a quatrain, were published in BM (1945), 64. Poems (1955), 1025-26 (A, B principal, as two eight-line stanzas; without [C]); CP (1960), 626 (B), as two eight-line stanzas. (J1483)