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    Rossetti his life and works / edited by Michael G. Brennan.

    • Title:Rossetti his life and works / edited by Michael G. Brennan.
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    • Author/Creator:Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Brennan, Michael G., editor.
    • Published/Created:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Description:lxxxii, 284 pages ; 23 cm
    • Series:Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. Works. v. 16.
    • Summary:"This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence. This, Waugh's first published book, marked the centenary of the birth of the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). Waugh was fascinated by the bohemian lives of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, and by his own family connection with them (William Holman Hunt had married, successively, two cousins of his grandfather). Rossetti is both compassionate towards its subject and critical of his self-destructive nature. The incisive analysis of Rossetti's painterly techniques contributed to the resurgence of public interest in Rossetti's art and poetry. The biography was also an early expression of Waugh's lifelong interest in narrative art, and laid the foundations for his own belief in the importance of the spiritual as well as the aesthetic vision of the artist. Although Rossetti was hastily compiled, it is nevertheless elegant and witty." --From publisher's description.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-274) and index.
    • ISBN:9780199683574 hardback
      0199683573 hardback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Origins
      Introduction
      Rossetti family
      Childhood of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
      II. Pre-Raphaelites
      condition of English painting
      Haydon
      new patrons
      Academy
      Madox Brown
      origins of Pre-Raphaelitism
      Millais and Hunt
      Brotherhood
      Academy, 1850
      Water-colours
      Elizabeth Siddal
      Raskin rescues the P.R.B.
      III. Æsthetes
      Ruskin
      Working Men's College
      William Morris and the Pembroke set
      Edward Burne-Jones
      Rossetti `would have all men painters'
      Arthur's Tomb, The Marriage of St. George, the Llandaff Triptych
      Rossetti as a business man
      Morris firm
      Rossetti as a husband
      Death of Elizabeth Siddal
      IV. Good Years, 1862
      1867
      Tudor House
      Rossetti's income
      His collection of bric-a-brac and animals
      Charles Augustus Howell
      Beloved
      Rossetti's compositions
      V. Shadows
      Insomnia
      Fear of blindness
      Penkill
      Poems
      VI. `The Fleshly School'
      Robert Buchanan
      Chloral
      Jane Morris
      `Past question not entirely sane'
      Attempted suicide
      Sale of his china
      VII. Kelmscott, 1872
      1874
      Kelmscott Manor
      Incompatibility of Rossetti's manner of life and Morris's
      series of Jane Morris pictures
      VIII. Last Phase, 1874
      1882
      London, 1874
      Grosvenor Gallery
      Last paintings
      Last poems
      Hall Caine
      Vale of St. John
      Death
      IX. What is Wrong with Rossetti?
      Subjective painting
      `Literary' painting
      Spiritual inadequacy.
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