Few collections of verse have been associated with such drama as
these poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). Much of this work
had disappeared in 1862 when it was buried with Rossetti's wife,
Elizabeth Siddal, only to be brought back to the light of day in
1869. Rossetti added further poems and the work first appeared in
1870. The full impact of the sexually explicit material was soon
felt. In his article 'The Fleshly School of Poetry', the writer
Robert Williams Buchanan denounced Rossetti as corrupt and
decadent. Others joined the chorus of disapproving voices. Steeped
in remorse about his treatment of his wife, and riddled with guilt
about his affair with Jane Morris, Rossetti broke down and
attempted suicide. Behind all the sensation, however, lies
Rossetti's subtle and complex literary intelligence attempting,
many years before Freud, to find honest modes of expression for the
central importance of the libido.
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