In his review for the Evening Herald, W. B. Yeats
judged that this volume was well nigh in all things a thoroughly Irish book, springing straight from the Celtic mind and pouring itself out...
Textual Features
Rosamund Marriott Watson
Some of the fifteen poems chronicle the end of a love affair, perhaps foreshadowing her own marital crisis. Scholar Linda K. Hughes
notes the influence of Christina
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Jean Ingelow
...
Textual Production
Evelyn Waugh
EW
published his first book, a generally well-reviewed biography entitled Rossetti
: His Life and Works.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production
Evelyn Waugh
After EW
's book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, which was connected with his early ambition to be an artist, came a number of biographically-oriented works which sprang from his Catholic faith. His lives of...
Friends, Associates
Augusta Webster
She made her entry into the city's literary circles with the assistance of Theodore Watts
, later Theodore Watts-Dunton, who was a great supporter of her work and later a colleague at the Athenæum...
Intertextuality and Influence
Augusta Webster
A Castaway is AW
's single best-known work and has often been compared to Dante Gabriel Rossetti
's Jenny.
AW
's volume appeared in February, while Rossetti's Poems appeared later (it was reviewed by...