Product Description

A major poet, writer, and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as the dominating cultural presence in the second half of the nineteenth century. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite movement, revised and reimagined Blake’s project of marrying images and texts, and was a shaping influence on Modernist aesthetic ideas and practices. His translations are original poetical works in their own right. Jerome McGann, a leading figure in nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, presents a generous selection of Rossetti’s poetry, prose, and original translations. The collection, which includes important writings unavailable in any edition of Rossetti ever printed, is accompanied by McGann’s learned and critically incisive commentaries and notes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1007158 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Review
[A] fascinating new edition of Rossetti's poetry. . . . -- Adam Kirsch, New York Sun

About the Author
Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia, is also the author of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must Be Lost, published by Yale University Press.