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.


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 (ISBN 0 300 08023 9, [pound]25.00*).

Reviews
"This is the most coherent and intelligible selection of Rossetti's work available in print, and it has the most interpretatively suggestive notes. Its inclusion of important writings not available elsewhere will expand the current understanding of Rossetti." Elizabeth Helsinger, University of Chicgo



Book Information
ISBN 9780300098020
Author Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Format Paperback
Page Count 456
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
Weight(grams) 644g