WMR editorial error
Overview
| Date | 1900-12-01 |
| Publication | Athenaeum |
| Topic | WMR editorial error |
| AP display | |
| RA display | |
| Subject | art |
| Keywords | DGR scraps; prev. pub; WMR error |
| Standards | facts |
| ↳ | discovery |
| Notes | WMR pub. DGR scrap in Pall Mall Gazette as un-pub. in error |
Annotation details
98 December 10 Athenaeum
Topic:
explain WMR mistake in a Pall Mall Magazine article.
Citation:
Rossetti, William M. "Dante Rossetti's Fragments." Athenaeum (December 10, 1898): 830. Web. 21 September 2011.
Summary:
William Rossetti explains how he came to mistakenly include previously published verses by Dante Rossetti in an article entitled "Some scraps of verse and prose by Dante Gabriel Rossetti," which was intended to contain only unpublished fragments. He volunteers to repay whatever amount the Pall Mall Magazine might name.
Mode:
critic, historian
Keywords:
correction, error
Standards of Judgment:
first-person knowledge
References:
Dante Rossetti
Rhetoric:
definitive
Writing technique/tone:
definitive, apologetic
Notable/quotable:
"I fail to understand how I made such a mistake."