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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.BR
> 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.
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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Poems (Paperback)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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