Double Works
Double Works
Jerome McGann
This critical introduction was originally published at the Rossetti Archive: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/racs/doubleworks.rac.html.
This critical introduction was originally published at the Rossetti Archive: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/racs/doubleworks.rac.html.
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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 intricate fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night prevail; and let Time see Its flowering crest impearled and orient. |
In the fall of 1883, a pamphlet called, The Bitter Cry of the Outcast London: An Inquiry into the Conditions of the Abject Poor, was published describing the deplorable sanitary conditions of the poor. A few days later, The Pall Mall Gazette picked up the story and wrote an article called “Is it Not Time?” containing a one-page condensed version of the pamphlet.
This timeline offers just a few of the many events that shaped Victorian Britain and her people. You will be assigned one of these events to learn about for the
SO THAT HAPPENED AND . . . : THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME assignment.