Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Subtitle: the poet as craftsman
By: Robert N. Keane.
Series: Studies in nineteenth-century British literature,; vol. 17; Studies in nineteenth-century British literature ;; v. 17.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 -- Technique.; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 -- Criticism, Textual.; Poetics -- History -- 19th century.
Description: "Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the poet-painter, was an untiring craftsman who repeatedly edited his poems - partly due to the influence of advice from family and friends. He refrained from publishing any volume of his own work until he was past forty although he had been writing poetry since his teenage years and had published a few poems, which he also subsequently revised, in periodicals and annuals.

This book records the extensive paper-trail of personal correspondence, documented comments, manuscripts, proof sheets, and various printed editions offering the reader the opportunity to see Rossetti at work and to trace the gradual maturation of his thinking from draft to revision to print."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: 1. The Making of a Poet; title: 2. "Songs of the Art Catholic"; title: 3. Ballads of the 1850s; title: 4. Narratives and Ballads of the 1860s; title: 5. Poems 1870: the Making of a Volume; title: 6. The Building of The House of Life; title: 7. Poems of the 1870s; title: 8. The Last Chapter: 1880-82; title: Epilogue.