ABSTRACT

First publ. in M & W, 10 Nov. 1855; repr. 1863 (when it was placed in ‘Romances’; see Appendix D, p. 747), 18632, 1868, 1872, 1888. Our text is 1855. An unusual proportion of the revisions for 1863 do not appear in 18632 , which also has several unique variants; B. seems to have returned to the poem between the publication of the volume of selections and that of the Poetical Works.