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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    September 2014
    January 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139583282
    9781108060486
    9781108059923
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139583282
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.53kg, 300 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.38kg, 300 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Art, English Literature 1830-1900, European and World Literature: General Interest, Western Art
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Art, English Literature 1830-1900, European and World Literature: General Interest, Western Art
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry
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    Few collections of verse have been associated with such drama as these poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–82). Much of this work had disappeared in 1862 when it was buried with Rossetti's wife, Elizabeth Siddal, only to be brought back to the light of day in 1869. Rossetti added further poems and the work first appeared in 1870. The full impact of the sexually explicit material was soon felt. In his article 'The Fleshly School of Poetry', the writer Robert Williams Buchanan denounced Rossetti as corrupt and decadent. Others joined the chorus of disapproving voices. Steeped in remorse about his treatment of his wife, and riddled with guilt about his affair with Jane Morris, Rossetti broke down and attempted suicide. Behind all the sensation, however, lies Rossetti's subtle and complex literary intelligence attempting, many years before Freud, to find honest modes of expression for the central importance of the libido.

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