Rossetti : Dante Gabriel (1828-82), English poet, painter, founder of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood devoted to “truth to nature” & romanticizing the Middle Ages.
... critical a point creates some sort of presumption that what he had entered was the version he thought more probable as Shelley's than was the Rossetti-emendation. Obviously he believed the line's inequality to be a mistake of printing and obviously too he rejected Rossetti; but there is no certainty that his substitute was drawn from any literary journal rather than being his own poetic conjecture. ... worthy of Shelley; and I suppose that when Mr. Swinburne in his Essays and Studies [1875] spoke of Mr. Rossetti's deaf and desperate daring, he was expressing, in nobler language, the same opinion." Rossetti, we may adjudge, foisted on Shelley a lack of poetic sensibility and subtlety by making the line too much of a seasonal list. Doubtless there was a not unhappy balance — the extremes of the verse... common succession of the four parts of the year spoiled Page 273 the whole phrase with a touch of obviousness. Housman could not help agreeing with Swinburne's condemnation of Rossetti, and yet be rebelled against him for — as he put it to his audience — "objections which you may call, as you please, scientific or pedantic". His case ran: "Shelley's MS exists; and the inequality ...
... course, Rossetti is speaking of the "five handmaidens" of "Lady Mary" in the heavenly groves and Sri Aurobindo is listing the apsara-companions of the peerless Urvasie, dancer in the courts of Indra. But without their contexts, the lines only suggest lovely things. An Indian ignorant of European names and with no knowledge of Christian religious legend will hardly catch the hint that Rossetti is referring ...
... order of time, Spenser, Keats, Tennyson, Rossetti, Yeats. Out of them Keats is the most original: in originality he is far superior to Milton. Sri Aurobindo calls Keats "the first entire artist in word and rhythm in English poetry, - not gran- Page 72 diose, classical and derived like Milton, but direct and original in his artistry." 9 Rossetti stands next in subtle pictorial directness ...
... lyrical surge and all too self-conscient fury of foam-tossing sound, and in place of the supernatural visions of Blake and Coleridge we have the mediaeval glamour and languorous fields of dream of Rossetti and Morris. There is a considerable gain, but a deep loss; for this poetry has a more evolved richness, but in that greater richness a greater poverty. The gain is in fullness of a more varied use... self-doubting scepticism, has lucidity, balance and grace, a fine though restricted and tenuous strain of thought and a deep and penetrating melancholy, the mediaevalism and aesthetic mysticism of Rossetti, the slow dreamy narrative of Morris which takes us to a refuge from the blatancy and ugliness of the Victorian environment into the gracious world of old story and legend, bring in each their own... the conventionality and platitude which constantly meets us in Tennyson's thinking; he can achieve the strongest effects, even the romantic effect without the overwrought romantic colour of Rossetti, Swinburne's overpitch or Tennyson's too frequent overcharge and decorative preciosity of expression. We are at ease with him and can be sure that he will not say too much but just what the true poet ...
... on this fast-disappearing little group of a bare 100,000 members in the whole world, but I shan't let myself go at the moment. Let me touch on some matters you have alluded to. "Dante Gabriel Rossetti" - I was delighted to see that name blaze out of your letter. Like his greater Florentine namesake, he and his work have attracted me ever since my late school-days. I have conned his House of Life... was shed on my wondering when Sri Aurobindo remarked apropos of an early poem by my sister Minnie that she was surely a bom poet, although here and there were some gleams from Heine and Christina Rossetti. Minnie had not read either of these poets. But I made an astonishing discovery. I came upon a portrait of Christina done by her brother Dante Gabriel, which bore an extraordinary resemblance in facial ...
... appearing out of combined and permuted elements of the anterior creation. Now for Paradise Lost and The Tyger. A general background influence is well expressed by Bateson. 3 He tells us that the Rossetti MS., in which many of the "Songs of Experience" including our poem were originally composed, was first used as a sketch-book for scenes in or suggested by Paradise Lost - "Satan exulting over Eve"... based on Milton's account of the Fall of the Angels ( Paradise Lost , Book VI) , the stars being Urizen (Satan) and his associates. " Later, there is Bateson's remark 5 on the fifth stanza: "In the Rossetti MS. this stanza faces the first draft of the rest of the poem on the opposite page . It has been written over the edge of a swirling sketch of a figure with bent knees and upraised hands who seems ...
... peculiar to itself that a foreigner cannot acquire them, is no new discovery; it is a statement that has been often made. But it fails at one point—birth does not matter. A pure Italian by blood like Rossetti or his sister Christina, a Pole like Conrad, a Spaniard like Santayana (I am speaking of prose Page 444 also, however,) can do as well in English as born English writers. It is said however ...
... lyrical surge and all too self-conscient fury of foam-tossing sound, and in place of the supernatural visions of Blake and Coleridge we have the mediaeval glamour and languourous fields of dream of Rossetti and Morris." The Victorians, however, are much closer to the soul of the Page 161 new Romanticism than are those who preceded it. The intellectual endeavour in the immediate ...
... Eliot, A, 41 Representative English Poetry, 24 fn. 9 Revelation of St. John the Divine, The, 44, 45,46,59 fn. 20 Rintrah, 205-06,231 Romantic Imagination, The, 137 fn. 1 Rossetti Ms., 54,55, 92 Rosenthal, M.L., 22,33-35,41 Sampson, John,T41 fn. 5 Satan, 40,44,47,56,57,58,65,66,68, 180,182 "Satan defying God the Father", 54 "Satan exulting over Eve" ...
... conviction that the first chapter of The Life Divine, the shortest in the book, is the finest and profoundest and most comprehensive piece of condensed philosophical writing in the world. The Rossetti literature you have sent me has made very good reading. The translation of Villon's Ballad of Dead Ladies has been one of my favourites too. The original French of that haunting line you have ...
... a born poet. There are just a few slight mistakes in the rhythm and turns of language; but the only serious blunder is the "seductive vampire". There are of course echoes — a mixture of Christina Rossetti and Heine (I don't know if she has read translations of Heine, it may be an indirect influence); but that was inevitable. I have suggested a few changes (in addition to yours) for the sake of perfection; ...
... in the realms of gold" captivates instantly the precious and permanent value of literature and how the poet finds his native region here. Unlike Milton who regards gold as profane, D. G. Rossetti elevates this precious metal to the high heavens. In The Blessed Damozel the eponymous character yearns for the bliss on earth from her home in heaven. The phrase "leaned out" indicates that ...
... serious: there is nothing about Coventry Patmore, Francis Thompson and Alice Meynell. And one other name—not belonging to either group but verging on the mystical domain—is worth inclusion: Christina Rossetti. Perhaps something on Gerard Manly Hopkins wouldn't be uninteresting, too. Among non-mystical poets there are some omissions also: Chapman, for instance—and in the recent group, William Watson, Thomas ...
... Racine: La fille de Minos et de Pasiphaë. (The daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë.) But we do not have here the finest that poetry can offer in this genre, lacking as it does what Rossetti called "fundamental brain-work". We need a deeper pleasure if we are to rest with Melopoeia. And this pleasure is not found even in the early Milton and early Sri Aurobindo we have cited; for their ...
... the Romantic occur in Latin literature too - in Ovid "with his love-lorn heroines", Virgil "with his Messianic broodings and his passionate Dido", Catullus "the Roman Burns'', Propertius ''the Roman Rossetti'' . 7 In giving examples of Romantic lines, Lucas 8 does not only mention Wordsworth's Lady of the Mere Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. He finds the typical Romantic ...
... guardians of the Spirit – poets and artists – who, even in the very midst of the maelstrom of Modernism, sought to hark back, back to the rock of the ages. The mediaevalism and archaicism of which a Rossetti or a Morris, for example, is often accused embodies only a defensive reaction on the part of Europe's soul; it is an attempt to return to her more fundamental life-intuition. In this connection ...
... Riemann, 325 Romains, Jules, 69, 360 -Vie Unanime, 360 Romanticism, 212 Romantic Revival, the, 207, 212 Rome, 16, 25, 72, 119, 206, 238-9, 245 Rossetti, 151 Rousseau, 113, 145 Roy, D. L., 192 Rumi 280 Russell, Bertrand, 140, 317, 326-7 Russia... 81, 91, 104, 106, 125, 207 Russian Revolution, 101, ...
... Hither a rapture she invisible Or he a mystic body and mystic soul. Reveal not then thy being naked to hers.... (Vol. 5, p. 206). Page 103 Not Shakespeare, nor Donne, nor Rossetti could have achieved a completer, a more uninhibited, a more passionate evocation of love's fierce storm and its aftermath of fulfilled calm than in these whirling and hotly adequate lines. Having ...
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