The Pre-Raphaelites: An Anthology of Poetry by Dante Gabriel Rosetti and Others

In 1848, three painters―Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais―established a movement known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Although the brotherhood lasted only four years, the movement itself had an indelible effect on art and letters in middle and late Victorian England, despite there being no simple definition of its aims. This standard anthology presents major Pre-Raphaelite poets―Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Charles Swinburne and George Meredith―as well as the minor Pre-Raphaelite poets William Michael Rossetti, Thomas Woolner, Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti, William Allingham, Richard Watson Dixon, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Philip Bourke Marston, and Theodore Watts-Dunton. It also includes a section on “Polemic, Parody, and Criticism” featuring writings from John Ruskin, Robert Buchanan, Dante Rossetti, W.H. Mallock, Henry Duff Traill, W. S. Gilbert, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. Collected, edited, and introduced by renowned Victorian scholar Jerome H. Buckley, this anthology is the authoritative collection of Pre-Raphaelite literature.  Read more