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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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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.
Excerpt: ...together, alive from the abyss, Clung the soul-wrung
implacable close kiss; And pity of self through all made broken
moan Which said, 'For once, for once, for once alone ' And still
Love sang, and what he sang was this: - III 'O ye, all ye that walk
in Willow-wood, That walk with hollow faces burning white; What
fathom-depth of soul-struck widowhood, What long, what longer
hours, one lifelong night, Ere ye again, who so in vain have wooed
Your last hope lost, who so in vain invite Your lips to that their
unforgotten food, Ere ye, ere ye again shall see the light Alas the
bitter banks in Willowwood, With tear-spurge wan, with blood-wort
burning red: Alas if ever such a pillow could Steep deep the soul
in sleep till she were dead, - Better all life forget her than this
thing, That Willowwood should hold her wandering ' IV So sang he:
and as meeting rose and rose Together cling through the wind's
wellaway Nor change at once, yet near the end of day The leaves
drop loosened where the heart-stain glows, - So when the song died
did the kiss unclose; And her face fell back drowned, and was as
grey As its grey eyes; and if it ever may Meet mine again I know
not if Love knows. Only I know that I leaned low and drank A long
draught from the water where she sank, Her breath and all her tears
and all her soul: And as I leaned, I know I felt Love's face
Pressed on my neck with moan of pity and grace, Till both our heads
were in his aureole. WITHOUT HER What of her glass without her? The
blank grey There where the pool is blind of the moon's face. Her
dress without her? The tossed empty space Of cloud-rack whence the
moon has passed away. Her paths without her? Day's appointed sway
Usurped by desolate night. Her pillowed place Without her? Tears,
ah me for love's good grace, And cold forgetfulness of...
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The New Life (Paperback, Main)
Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Michael Palmer
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Poems (Paperback)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Jenny (Paperback)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Lenore (Paperback)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Lenore (Hardcover)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Poems
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ernest Radford
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