ABSTRACT
First publ. by Chapman and Hall on 1 Apr. 1850; repr. (always with the collective title) in 1863 (in vol. 3, with Paracelsus and Sordello), 1868 (in vol. 5, with A Soul’s Tragedy, Luria, and Men and Women), and 1888 (in vol. 5, with Dramatic Romances). Our text is 1850. Not repr. in its entirety in any volume of selections, but three extracts, all from CE, were included in 18632 : ll. 1–186, entitled ‘Mount Zion Chapel at Love-Lane’ (pp. 214–19); ll. 782–96, entitled ‘Theological Lecture-Room at Göttingen’ (pp. 220–3); and ll. 524–95, entitled ‘St. Peter’s at Rome’ (pp. 223–5). Note that the order of the second and third extracts reverses the narrative sequence in the poem itself. The extracts have no section numbers; the first line of a new ‘section’ is indicated by a paragraph indent, except for l. 843 which runs on directly from l. 842. The choice of these extracts (with, perhaps significantly, none from ED) was probably made by John Forster, who with B. W. Procter was responsible for the contents of the volume but, as with other items, B. took the opportunity to make some changes to the text, which is intermediate between 1850 and 1863, and has several unique variants. Three further extracts, considerably shorter, and this time chosen by B., were included in 18652 : ED 275–88, entitled ‘Epitaph in the Catacombs’ (p. 209); CE 1212–28 (p. 211); and ED 796–807, entitled ‘MichelagnolO' (p. 217). Note that these extracts are not grouped together; May and Death comes between the first two (p. 210), and Apparent Failure, Eurydice to Orpheus, and Prospice come between the second and the third.
