The Poetry of Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- First Published: 1870
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Victorian era or Victorianism
Critical Evaluation:
Some glimpse into Rossetti’s ideas on poetry can be obtained from the statement made, at almost the end of his life, to Hall Caine, that when, as a youth, he had first encountered early English ballad literature, he had said to himself, “There lies your line.” He read the collections made by Thomas Percy (1765) and by Sir Walter Scott (1802-1803) as well as Scott’s original poetry, and he spent many hours in the British Museum poring over medieval romances in a search for words to use in poems that he planned to write.
He began his career,...
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