Selections from Rossetti and Morris [Paperback]

A 1929 selection of poetry and prose from two prominent members of the Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris.First published in 1929, this book contains a selection of poetry and prose from two prominent members of the Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. The volume will appeal to anyone wishing to trace the different interpretations of the Pre-Raphaelite movement by two of its most famous literary figures.First published in 1929, this book contains a selection of poetry and prose from two prominent members of the Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. The volume will appeal to anyone wishing to trace the different interpretations of the Pre-Raphaelite movement by two of its most famous literary figures.This book was first published in 1929 and contains a selection of poetry and prose from two prominent members of the Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. The selections are arranged chronologically in most instances, highlighting the development of style and subject matter in each author's oeuvre. A generous introduction is supplied, outlining the ideology of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and providing short biographical sketches of both Rossetti and Morris, and critical notes are included for several of the works. This volume will appeal to anyone wishing to trace the different interpretations of the Pre-Raphaelite movement by two of its most famous literary figures.Introduction; Dante Gabriel Rossetti: From Poems, 1870: The blessed damozel; The staff and scrip; The portrait; Sister Helen; The stream's secret; The card-dealer; The ballad of dead ladies; My father's close; The birth-bond; Lost days; A superscription; Newborn death; Love-lily; Sudden light; The woodspurge; Mary's girlhood; From Ballads and Sonnets, 1881: Down stream; The white ship; Soothsay; The cloud confines; Winter; Spring; From The Germ, 1850: Hand and soul; William Morris: From The Oxford and Cambridge Magazinel#n