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Rossetti's poem "The Blessed Damozel" was the inspiration for Claude Debussy's cantata La Damoiselle élue (1888). John Ireland (1879–1962) set to music as one of his Three Songs, Rossetti's poem "The One Hope" from Poems (1870). In 1904 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) created his song cycle The House of Life from six poems by Rossetti ...
W. M. Rossetti, in the memoir of his brother prefixed to Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Collected Works (1886), mentions that, especially in 1848 and 1849, he and Rossetti constantly practised their pens in writing sonnets to bouts-rimés, each giving the other the rhymes for a sonnet, and Dante Gabriel writing off these exercises in verse-making at ...
It was edited from a notebook in Rossetti's possession, now known as the Rossetti MS., containing a great number of sketches, draft poems, polemical prose, and miscellaneous writings, which Blake kept by him for many years. As the only textual authority for many of these poems is a foul papers, some of them are partly editorial reconstructions ...
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), English poet writing romantic, devotional and children's poems; Ellen Sergeant Rude (1838–1916), American poet, writer, and temperance reformer; Virginie Sampeur (1939–1919), Haitian educator and poet; Carrie Bell Sinclair (1839–1883), American poet
D. G. Rossetti, [2] A. C. Swinburne, [3] and W. B. Yeats [4] in their publications of Blake's poetry used this as a title for the series of poems from the manuscripts. In 1905 John Sampson issued the first annotated publication of all these poems and created a detailed descriptive Index to 'The Rossettt MS.'. [5]
Found is an unfinished oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, now in the Delaware Art Museum.The painting is Rossetti's only treatment in oil of a contemporary moral subject, urban prostitution, and although the work remained incomplete at Rossetti's death in 1882, he always considered it one of his most important works, returning to it many times from the mid-1850s until the year before his ...
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti's frontispiece illustration depicts the grief-stricken prince upon hearing the news of his princess's death; the title illustration depicts the princess staring longingly out the window as she waits for her prince to return. The 1866 edition contains 46 poems in addition to "The Prince's Progress."