Rossetti: Painter and Poet

Rossetti, painter and poet is a critical biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti that examines the relationship between his art and his writing in the context of his life. Bullen’s premise is that Rossetti was a courageous pioneer in the late-nineteenth-century world of evasion and repression. He dared to explore the hidden recesses of the mind and to claim that the libido was a driving force in human life. Both Rossetti’s art and his poetry were castigated for their ‘f... >Voir plus