This distinctive Abbeville title is now back in stock! Composed of luscious reproductions, telling details, and graceful ornamentation, it was the first illustrated monograph devoted to the uniquely talented Dante Gabriel Rossetti. One of Victorian England's most flamboyant artists, Rossetti painted[...]
This celebration of the poet's passionate love for his immortal Beatrice weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. A predecessor to "The Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova" (The New Life) also serves as an ever-relevant treatise on the art and[...]
Although Dante Gabriel Rossetti vacillated between poetry and painting as his chief interest in life, he often succeeded in each of the arts; and despite his disclaimers, the one art often influenced the perception of the other. Even though the poems do not necessarily see like pictures nor the pain[...]
Few collections of nineteenth-century verse have expressed the central importance of the libido as Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems of 1870.[...]
Large Format for easy reading. A series of sonnets which initially created a controversy and were attacked for their eroticism and sensuality. They are Rossetti's most substantial literary achievement.[...]