Few poems in English have a more mysterious charm than Rosetti's <3>The Blessed Damozel<1>. Born in the imagination of a youth of eighteen, cherished and labored over for more than thirty years, it is a poem of remote and fragile beauty. This complete collation of the variant readings, with introduction and notes, will be of unusual interest for those who like to study the origin and growth of a work of art.

Originally published in 1937.

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