Note 9, Chapter 1 of the author's Christina Rossetti in Context which the University of North Carolina Press published in 1988. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
In Crump's first volume see, for instance, the following heavily revised poems: "Song," "Echo," "Shut Out," "Bitter for Sweet," "The Poor Ghost," "Songs in a Cornfield," "The Bourne," "Summer," "A Royal Princess," "Bird or Beast," "After This the Judgment," "By the Sea," "The Lowest Room" and "Who Shall Deliver Me?"
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