1847 first version, "The Blessed Damozel"
"My Sister's Sleep" (1847-49)
"For an Annunciation"
Sonnet 90, "The House of Life"
1848 early version "Jenny"
"The Bride's Prelude," also 1859 (poss. also 1880?)
"House of Life" sonnets 71-73"
"For Our Lady of the Rocks"
1849 "For a Venetian Pastoral"
HL, sonnets 74-76
1850 "Burden of Nineveh," altered 1856
HL, sonnet 69 ("Autumn Idleness")
1851 "Sister Helen," altered 1880
1852 HL, sonnet 47
1853 HL, sonnets 65, 70
1854 HL, sonnets 15, 67
1855 HL, sonnet 68
1856 revised "Burden of Nineveh"
1859 "The French Liberation of Italy"
"The House of Life"
I. Early period: 1849-67 (18 sonnets)
moralistic sonnets of 40s; regretful sonnets of failed opportunity, 50s
15, 47, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 86, 90, 91
II. 1868-70 (42 sonnets)
2. 3, 4, 6, 6a, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16, 21, 23, 25, 36, 37, 38, 39, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 63, 79, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 92 and 93 (1869-73), 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101
III. 1871-73 (37 sonnets)
1, 5, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 53, 54, 59, 60, 62, 64, 66, 80, 81, 88, 89, 89, 96
IV. Late period 1874-81 (6 sonnets)
sonnets on the nature of beauty, literary achievement--emphasis on the formal and ornate
Introductory sonnet, 56, 57, 58, 61, 94
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