...Albert Edmund Trombly Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 Rossetti Studies IV: Rossetti as Translator* Albert Edmund Trombly University of Texas A little wild bird sometimes at my ear Sings his own little verses very clear: Others sing louder that I do not hear. For singing loudly...

...Albert Edmund Trombly Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Rossetti Studies: Craftsmanship Albert Edmund Tbombly University of Texas A sonnet is a moment s monument, Memorial from the Soul s eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire...

...Albert Edmund Trombly Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Rossetti Studies: The Lyric Albert Edmund Trombly University of Texas Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig, which the pluckers forgot somehow, Forgot it not, nay, but got...

...Albert Edmund Trombly Copyright © 1920 by Duke University Press 1920 Rossetti Studies Fundamental Brainwork Albert Edmund Trombly University of Texas I shut myself in with my soul, And the shapes come eddying forth. (Fragment.) Conception . . . Fundamental Brainwork, that is what makes...

...Paull F. Baum Christina Rossetti: A Portrait with Background . By Zaturenska Marya . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1949 . Pp. 311 . $4.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 419 the editor s article on Milton s autographs is not listed...

...Clyde De L. Ryals Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Limits of Victorian Vision . By Riede David G. . Ithaca, N.Y., and London : Cornell University Press , 1983 . Pp. 287 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 436 The South Atlantic Quarterly at all by Kaplan...

... reasonable. COLUMBIA S.C. MORSE PECKHAM Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Limits of Victorian Vision. By David G. Riede. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1983. Pp. 287. $25.00. Of all nineteenth-century British poets pretending to major status, Dante Gabriel Rossetti is probably the least...

... and coloring. They brought the method over into literature, and abundant illustrations of tall and lovely ladies or delicately carved im­ ageries may be cited from their work. In Rossetti the best case in point is of course The Blessed Damozelbut we pass by this well known poem for illustrations from...

...Stanley Trachtenberg Saul Bellow and History . By Newman Judie . New York : St. Martin’s Press , 1984 . Pp. ix , 208 . $20.00 Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 437 notes the interplay between word and picture in Rossetti s early work. Reide believes...

... violence or facetiousness. For instance, the note to a curious and perplexing letter of apology conjecturally dated October, 1866 (I, 189): I have no idea whom the letter is addressed to, but Wise s nomination of John Churton Collins is highhanded non­ sense. Lord Houghton or Gabriel Rossetti would...

.... . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 420 The South Atlantic Quarterly hearsay from fact. She can call Violet Hunt s The Wife of Rossetti in­ valuable, and for one incident, very imperfectly known to any of us today, she frankly follows Sacheverell Stiwell s poetically valid re-creation...

... and died; their collective genius had been felt; their individual genius had been recognized; Blake re­ mained unknown. Then in the sixties he was lionized by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their friends. D. G. Rossetti appears to have been among the first to call attention to him, and this a few years...

... of Milton, in his hand The Thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains alas, too few! There are numerous sequences of sonnets about a single central theme, such as the love of Elizabeth Barrett for Robert Browning. One of the finest of these sequences is Dante Gabriel Rossetti s The House...

... the witching persons and com­ munal play of Herrick, without the pervasive concern with vivid human semblances of Keats or Rossetti; the personages he alludes to are, almost all, shadowy and have the same part in his settings as human figures do in post-impressionist land­ scapes. And his apperception admits...

... in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. W. T. Laprade. 200 The South Atlantic Quarterly REGARDING THE ROSSETTIS Poor Splendid Wings: The Rossettis and Their Circle. By Frances Winwar. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1933. Pp. xii, 413. According to the publisher s announcement on the jacket, Miss Winwar...

... literary relationships is not as dramatically enhanced by these early drafts, although subtle differences can prove to be significant. Take, for instance, the influence of Walter Pater on Yeats and his fellow Rhymers. In the Autobiography Yeats reveals that whereas D. G. Rossetti s work had an emotional...

... ana Jones an outrageously disrespectful skit, outlining Sir Brown: drame en 7 actes et 49 tableaux, which shows his ribald delight in current gossip about the Queen and her gillie. He was still uncompro­ mising in his hatred of Christianity. Even in a letter to William Michael Rossetti, after...

... to the Bodleian Library in 1892 under conditions Mr. W. M. Rossetti was much upset by information that the Shelley family had recently destroyed a number of documents relating to the poet. The relation between this fact (if Rossetti was corectly informed) and the fact that in a privately printed book called...

.... Baum. ROSSETTI BIOGRAPHY Christina Georcina Rossetti. By Eleanor Walter Thomas. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931. viii, 229 pp. The centenary of Christina Rossetti was celebrated in London quiet­ ly, with the reading of her poems, as she would have wished. But the biographers, taking advantage...

..., for example, the mediocre Fanny Burney or Hester Thrale Piozzi with Mrs. Browning, who was, with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of the two foremost English sonneteers of the Victorian Era. Compare Miss Bur­ ney or Mrs. Piozzi with Rossetti s gifted sister Christina; or with Jane Austen, supreme realist...