Sentence examples for dates of composition from inspiring English sources
The dates of composition, 1889 to 1891, look like a misprint, but they aren't.
On the last page of "The Museum of Innocence," Pamuk reveals the dates of composition: 2001-2, 2003-8.
Despite the uncertainty of its dates of composition, "Illuminations" is quite clearly written after Rimbaud's most defiant and scurrilous phase had passed.
No manuscript of any of Shakespeare's plays survives, and there were substantial intervals between the dates of composition and the first printed versions, in which unauthorized variation clearly occurred.
The book is divided roughly in half, into two large sections, "The Poems" and "Commentary", followed by a couple of brief appendices, the first devoted to Larkin's early collections that he made in 11 typescript booklets, the second to dates of composition.
The dates of composition used here are based on external and internal evidence, on general stylistic and thematic considerations, and on the observation that an output of no more than two plays a year seems to have been established in those periods when dating is rather clearer than others.
The date of composition is a matter of guesswork, as the play is entirely undocumented: no records of performance, no early quarto edition.
Its author had almost certainly written "The Night Before Christmas" — the diction, metre, topic, and date of composition were too close to be coincidental.
