Collected poetry and prose

A major poet, writer and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as the dominating cultural presence in the second half of the 19th century.

He founded the Pre-Raphaelite movement, revised and re-imagined Blake's project of marrying images and texts, and was a shaping influence on Modernist aesthetic ideas and practices.

His translations are original poetical works in their own right.

Jerome McGann, scholar of the 19th and 20th century, presents a selection of Rossetti's poetry, prose and original translations.

The collection is accompanied by McGann's commentaries and notes.