A Survey of English Literature, Vol. 4 of 4
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Excerpt from A Survey of English Literature, Vol. 4 of 4: 1780-1880 After Tennyson, Browning, and Matthew Arnold, the next of the major poets to make his appearance was Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). With Tennyson, he is the surest artist of his time in verse; he is also the poet with the steadiest instinct for perfection. In thrift he is surpassed by few English writers of his own rank; nearly all his original work is contained in two volumes, beautiful in printing and appearance. The first of these, the Poems of 1870, was re-issued with changes and rearrangements in 1881, along with Ballads and Sonnets. Rossetti wrote intermittently, and painted much more than he wrote; and his writing may be thought of as an interlude in his life as a painter. He resorted to words when line and colour would not say what he wished, or all that he wished. But his pictorial sense also shaped his poetry, especially when the poem was written for an existing picture. The picture nearly always came first, The Blessed Damozel being an exception. Perhaps Rossetti´s verse will outlive his paintings, many of which now seem like the beautiful but mannered dream of a departed generation. His verse is deeply mannered also, or at least is minutely studied; and every word ´knows the road it came.´ But it endures by its force of conception and of passion, and by its compacted subtlety of phrase and music. Rossetti has left less inferior or superfluous verse than any great writer of the age. His mode of publication disguises the order in which his verses were composed. Many, as he tells us in the preface to the Poems of 1870, were ´written between 1847 and 1853,´ that is from between the ages of nineteen and twenty-five. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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