Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Standard Name: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Birth Name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Used Form: D. G. Rossetti
Oval-framed, head and shoulders painting by William Holman Hunt of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, said to be aged twenty-two. Rossetti looks down and forward, wide-eyed, in a black coat against a light blue background. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Half-length portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, c. 1871, by George Frederic Watts. Rossetti, bald and bearded, is wearing dark clothes against an almost equally dark background. National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Textual Production Elizabeth Siddal
The suggestion for publishing these poems had been made by Dante Gabriel Rossetti , but he made no further effort to publish them. ES 's work therefore languished until William Michael Rossetti gathered his family's...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
According to biographer Jan Marsh , she participated vicariously in the activities of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from its inception in later 1848. Yet, as Andrew and Catherine Belsey have strenuously argued, and as the life...
Textual Production Sally Purcell
Her further translations included many poems which were printed in her own volumes of verse, as well as selections from Charles of Orleans and Gaspara Stampa , Literature in the Vernacular (a rendering of Dante
Textual Production Emily Jane Pfeiffer
EJP composed The Posthumous Critics of a Dead Poet, and Deathless Poetry, an essay defending the writings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti . Though set to appear in the Contemporary Review, it was never...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Christina Rossetti
The protagonist of the title poem, which the author noted was the reverse of the Sleeping Beauty,
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
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was based on her brother Gabriel , who was falling short of his early promise.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sara Jeannette Duncan
The novel concerns an American writer, Elfrida Bell, from Sparta, Illinois, who is seen as a product of the fin-de-siècle. Her role as a francophile who champions the poetry of Rossetti and Swinburne places...
Violence Elizabeth Siddal
Dante Gabriel Rossetti had ES 's coffin exhumed so he could retrieve from it the manuscript of his poems.
Marsh, Jan. Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. Quartet Books, 1985.
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Sheets, Robin Lauterbach. “Pornography and Art: The Case of ‘Jenny’”. Critical Inquiry, Vol.
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, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1988, pp. 315-34.
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Doughty, Oswald. A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1960.
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