English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1326 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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The idea
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet, published "The Blessed Damozel" in The Germ and wrote the sonnet sequence The House of Life. The anchor records that he buried his poems in his wife Elizabeth Siddal's grave, then had them recovered; a critic attacked his verse as "fleshly."
In practice
Painter-poet, sonnets, sensuous detail.
Where people slip
The "fleshly" attack shows Victorian unease.
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