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The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 4 - The Chelsea Years, 1863-1872: Prelude to Crisis II. 1868-1870 (Hardcover)
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The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 4 - The Chelsea Years, 1863-1872: Prelude to Crisis II. 1868-1870 (Hardcover)
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Following the death of Elizabeth Siddal in 1862 and his settling in
Chelsea, Rossetti entered on a period of his life -- charted in
volume 3 -- that was marked by renewed activity as a painter and
increased financial prosperity. The years 1868-1870 covered by
volume 4 culminate in his return to writing poetry and the
publication in June 1870 of his long-anticipated and widely-read
Poems. However, despite the satisfaction that he could take from
his standing as a painter and from the fact that he was about to
establish himself as a poet, 1868-1870 were troubled years for
Rossetti. Problems with his eyesight led him to give up painting
for long periods, and to fear that, like his father before him, he
would end his days blind. He consulted Sir William Bowman and other
leading ophthalmologists, who eased his mind sufficiently for him
to return to his easel. This was also the time when he declared his
love for Jane Morris, the wife of his long-time friend and admirer
William Morris. In his long, moving letters to Janey we come face
to face with the satisfactions and frustrations of their
relationship. The letters to Janey provide a context for
understanding the many paintings and drawings from this period for
which she was the model, and for gauging the biographical origins
of the sonnets, written at this time for the sequence, The House of
Life, an early version of which was included in Poems.Probably the
most rewarding letters in the volume concern the preparation of
Poems. The letters deal at length with Rossetti's decision to have
his poems typeset for distribution to friends, the exhumation of
Elizabeth Siddal's coffin to recover the manuscript of his poems,
his obsessive care over the physical appearance of the volume,
especially the binding, and his efforts at "working the oracle,"
William Bell Scott's description of his methodically lining up
sympathetic reviewers.As with all of Rossetti's correspondence, the
letters in volume 4 are replete with pointed and sometimes humorous
commentary on an array of people and events, ranging from Edward
Burne-Jones's affair with "the Greek damzel," Mary Zambaco, and
Frederick Sandys's appropriation of subjects from his pictures, to
his unease over Swinburne's uncontrollable drunkenness, and his
ominous hatred of Robert Buchanan, the author of the "Fleshly
School" attack on his poetry in the Contemporary Review of October
1871, which became a major cause of the disastrous events of the
years 1871-1872.
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