{"product_id":"2940012251312","title":"The House Of Life [ By: Dante Gabriel Rossetti ]","description":"This version of DGR's celebrated work is the one best known, as well as the one that he left in a most finished condition. But no “definitive” version of the sequence can be presented because, in fact, DGR left the work as he originally conceived and originally described it: as a project “Towards a Work to be Called ‘The House of Life’”. See the commentaries for the “Sonnets and Songs Towards a Work to be Called ‘The House of Life’” (published in 1870), for the group of verses known as “The Kelmscott Love Sonnets” (presented to Mrs. Morris as a gift in 1874), and the original sixteen sonnet version first published in March 1869 in the Fortnightly Review, “Of Life, Love, and Death: Sixteen Sonnets”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnlike the 1870 and 1874 states of the project, this version lacks any “Songs” as a component part of the sequence. It also differs from those two previous states in the depth to which it takes its exploration of the experience of Love, which is the work's dominant subject. Both the 1870 and the 1881 states of the work study and pursue the “difficult deeps of love” in a way that is avoided nearly altogether in the 1874 state of the work. The 1874 work is nearly altogether celebratory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne other matter of general import should be noted. The ambiguous character of the work is sharply increased in the 1881 text. This happens largely because DGR gathers into this state of the work sonnets that relate to so many different times and circumstances. The sequence thereby torques individual sonnets into meanings and relations that would not otherwise have been available to them. The effect is particularly notable in the “Change and Fate” section of the sequence because that is where DGR forces together so many sonnets that come from so many diverse original contexts.","brand":"Publish This, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145308750064,"sku":"2940012251312","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012251312_p0.jpg?v=1763553677","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012251312","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}