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‘Jenny’

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | 394 words | Copyright

‘Jenny’, a poem by D. G. Rossetti, first published 1870. It was one of the poems buried with his wife Lizzie in 1862. The poet describes a night spent in the chamber of a prostitute, golden-haired Jenny; she falls asleep against his knees and at dawn he leaves her, after much meditation on her thoughtless gaiety, shame, and beauty, and on the toad Lust which has ruined her.

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