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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ernest Radford
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R827
Discovery Miles 8 270
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Poems
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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R937
Discovery Miles 9 370
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Lenore (Hardcover)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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R719
Discovery Miles 7 190
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Jenny (Hardcover)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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R716
Discovery Miles 7 160
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New and definitive edition of Rossetti's masterpiece, with full
notes and apparatus. Described by W.S. Blunt as 'the greatest of
the all the great Victorian poems', this sequence of 103 sonnets
was composed between 1847 and 1881, and finally published complete
in Ballads and Sonnets just six months before Rossetti's death.
These passionate celebrations of the ecstasy of love threatened by
change and Fate inspired the Aesthetes and Decadents of the
eighties and nineties, leading to Walter Pater's Mona Lisa and
Oscar Wilde's Salome. This new edition of Rossetti's poetic
masterpiece is presented here with Introduction, Notes and
definitive texts and date. All variants are given for each poem
(some sonnets exist in as many as eight versions), and each sonnet
is given a documented date of composition and first publication.
The illustrations include some rarely-seen images, notably a
self-portrait by Elizabeth Siddal, the poet's wife, in whose coffin
he placed his original poems, only to exhume them eight years
later. ROGER C. LEWIS is Emeritus Professor of English, Acadia
University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Selected Poems (Hardcover)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Edited by Clive Wilmer
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R2,858
Discovery Miles 28 580
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For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the
day, a painter and a poet of major stature. Yeats and the young
Pound regarded him as an exemplary figure of solitary dedication to
art and beauty.
Rossetti's most original work may have been in preparing the way
for the modernists, who in turn dethroned him. He called the sonnet
'a moment's monument', and his best short lyrics are instants of
oppressed emotion cut free of time. In this, as in the
suggestiveness of his imagery, he anticipates the French
Symbolists. He can also be regarded as the founder of modern verse
translation, not only for the freshness of his versions but also
for his choice of poets---Villon, Cavalcanti and the young Dante.
In this selection, Clive Wilmer has made a personal choice,
emphasizing the 'pure poetry' of the lyrics at the expense of the
more conventionally Victorian monologues and narratives. He has
also included a generous selection from the translations, and
provided a biographical and critical introduction.
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The New Life (Paperback, Main)
Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Michael Palmer
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R383
R344
Discovery Miles 3 440
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