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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / General; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry / Ancient, Classical ... Read more

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A major poet, writer, and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as the dominating cultural presence in the second half of the nineteenth century.He founded the Pre-Raphaelite movement, revised and reimagined Blake’s project of marrying images and texts,and was a shaping influence on Modernist aesthetic ideas and practices.His translations are original poetical works in their own right. Jerome McGann, a leading figure in nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, presents a generous selection of Rossetti’s poetry, prose, and original translations.The collection, which includes important writings unavailable in any edition of Rossetti ever printed, is accompanied by McGann’s learned and critically incisive commentaries and notes. ... Read more

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This work presents an illustrated appraisal of Rosetti's career, together with 40 large-format reproductions of his finest works in international and private collections. From richly coloured watercolours of Medieval themes to oil paintings of beautiful women, Rossetti's works mirror his unconventional life and obsessions, in particular his idealized image of feminine beauty. Many works feature his highly sensuous oil paintings of the models with whom he often conducted tempestuous affairs, including Elizabeth Siddal, whom he eventually married and who died from a drug overdose; and Jane Burder, the wife of William Morris and the subject of the Rossetti painting that holds the world-record price for a Pre-Raphaelite subject. ... Read more

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Great for lovers of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or any Pre-Raph lover
What a wonderful book - Fabulously set out with a full page print on one page and on the opposite page a description of the piece.The preface has loads of information on Rossetti - his art, life and lovers.The only thing that I would like is even more information on each piece of work although what is in the book is definitely better then most. I LOVE IT.

Absolutely beautiful...
I bought this book for my husband who loves the work of Rossetti -- I found this book after scouring five different bookstores for collections and being disappointed with every other one I found.

This book hasfull-page prints of almost every painting he has ever done with detailedbackground information on the opposite page.The preface is facsinating --it details his life as well as the evolution of his style.It is thoroughand well-written; although it can't replace a complete biography onRossetti, it comes close.It includes some of the sketches he had done aspreliminary work as well.

The other books we found either reprinted hispaintings as small pictures in the text (which of course limits yourenjoyment and examination of them) or they only had a few of his picturesor the text was hopelessly stuffy and academic.

My husband loved thebook... and so will you! ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1907Original Publisher: Little, BrownSubjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / GeneralPoetry / American / GeneralPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPoetry / Ancient, Classical ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III.My intercourse with Eossetti, epistolary and personal, extended over a period of between three and four years. During the first two of these years I was, as this volume must show, his constant correspondent, during the third year his attached friend, and during the portion of the fourth year of our acquaintance terminating with his life, his daily companion and housemate. It is a part of my purpose to help towards the elucidation of Eossetti's personal character by a simple, and I trust, unaffected statement of my relations to him, and so I begin by explaining that my knowledge of the man was the sequel to my admiration of the poet. Not accident (the agency that usually operates in such cases), but his genius and my love of it, began the friendship between us. Of Eossetti's pictorial art I knew little, until very recent years, beyond what could be gathered from a few illustrations to books. My acquaintance with his poetry must have been made at the time of the publication of the first volume in 1870, but as I did not then possess a copy of the book, and do not remember to have seen one, my knowledge of the work must have been merely such as could begleaned from the reading of reviews. The unlucky controversy, that subsequently arose out of it, directed afresh my attention, in common with that of others, to Eossetti and his school of poetry, with the result of impressing my mind with qualities of the work that were certainly quite outside the issues involved in the discussion. Some two or three years after that acrimonious controversy had subsided, an accident, sufficiently curious to warrant my describing it, produced the effect of converting me from a temperate believer in the charm of music and colour in Eossetti's lyric verse, to an ardent admirer of his imagina... ... Read more

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Although today William Blake (1757-1827) is recognised as a visionary poet and artist, at the time of his death he was unknown except for his presumed insanity. This highly influential two-volume biography by the barrister Alexander Gilchrist, first published in 1863 and reissued here in its second edition (1880), rescued William Blake from almost complete obscurity. The accepted interpretation of his madness was challenged and his creative talents were brought to the attention of Victorian society by the inclusion of selected writings and artistic works, nearly all previously unpublished. Volume 1 of Gilchrist's book is an account of William Blake's life, combining excerpts from his written works and paintings with detailed biographical information drawn from surviving letters and contemporary accounts. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The Collected Writings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti allow the reader to enter the world of pre-Raphaelite poetry, to study the interaction between verbal and visual arts and to assess Rossetti's place in the canon of Victorian literature. ... Read more

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A genius of a poet, a genius of an editor
Next to the glory of his paintings, it's easy to forget that Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a talented poet as well.It's easy to overlook his written work, even such classics as "Jenny" and "The Blessed Damozel", and the sonnets.

In this lovely anthology, Jan Marsh -- the foremost authority on the Pre-Raphaelite circle -- has collected and arranged Rossetti's writings.Buy this book, and sample the elegance of Victorian literature, and the genius of Rossetti. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Originally published in 1913.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1903Original Publisher: Pafreats book co.Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshNotes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Resurrecting Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a major literary figure and visual artist of the second half of the nineteenth century, this book is a conscious reaction to the last sixty years of literary criticism - in which Rossetti's work has been diminished and downplayed.McGann asserts the enormity of Rossetti's accomplishment by pointing out that Rossetti was the central artistic and intellectual figure of his generation, whose influence extended from Swinburne to Wilde to Yeats of Pound. McGann ultimately contends that Rosetti was the major conceptual artist of his generation, whose work prefigured many of the major aesthetic shifts of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:person, and that she is convinced you will find me considerably grown as well as improved in looks! I walk generally for nearly half the day, the views hereabouts being enough to drag out of his bed the greatest sluggard who ever snored. I intend to copy some of Mr. M[aenza]'s landscapes, since I have picked up a little taste that way.To conclude : the whole family join in affectionate regards and confident hopes for your recovery withYour affectionate Son,Gabriel Chas. Rossetti.This letter (it will be perceived by the date and the altered address) belongs to the second visit which my brother paid to Boulogne. The sketch which Peppino made of him in 1843 is still extant—an unsightly and unresembling sketch, with an almost mulatto cast of countenance." Byron's mad drama " is (as shown before) The Deformed Transformed. Mrs. Wood was a lady of some pretence to fashion living near us in Charlotte Street. " De Bazan"—the drama of Don Ccesar de Bazan—is spoken of as "accursed" only because it was then unevadable, as being played all over Europe. " Sue's novel" was the Juif Errant; Barbe-bleue was also (if I remember right) an early novel of Sue's. "The Voyage" was a Voyage oil il vous plaira, illustrated by Tony Johannot with woodcut designs of remarkable power of a nightmare kind. " The Barone" was a Sicilian, Calfapietra, a very agreeable companionable man, who had damaged himself by gambling before coming to England.35 Grande Rue [boulogne]. Saturday [1 December 1844]. My Dear William, .I received yesterday evening your unsightly missive containing the two Chuzzlewits, which were much admired. They greeted Mr. Maenza and myself on our return from an evening walk, during which we met the postman, who informed us that he had left a "gros paquet" at our h... ... Read more