The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. [2 volumes].

2 volumes. Large 8vo. [vi], 245, [3]; xiv, 246, [2] pp. Portrait frontis. photograph (by Mr. F.H. Day) of a drawing of the author, red title vignette. Original half green morocco, green marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, bound for Brentano's; spine faded. Near fine. Cheyne Walk edition (see half-title), printed at University Press, Cambridge. This is a complete collected edition of Rossetti's poems. It has been corrected over the standard edition edited by William Michael Rossetti, 1886. Rossetti, poet, illustrator, painter, translator, was extremely influential and he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. He suffered greatly towards the end of his life, finally ending as the result of Bright's (kidney) disease. "It would be difficult to imagine later nineteenth-century Victorian poetry and art without Rossetti's influence. His writings can perhaps best be viewed as an unusually acute expression of Victorian social uncertainty and loss of faith. Rossetti's poetry on the absence of love is as bleakly despairing as any of the century, and no poet of his period conveyed more profoundly certain central Victorian anxieties: metaphysical uncertainty, sexual anxiety, and fear of time." Poetry Foundation [web-source].

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Publisher: Brentano's, 1909.

Year: 1909

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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