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“How many children could say their home hosted the humblest and highest at the same time, on any given evening invaded by expatriates their father never hesitated to invite in? Through the back door he welcomed a bookseller, organ grinder, biscuit maker, vagrant macaroni man, and one called Galli who thought he was Christ. Through the front, disgraced Italian counts and generals made as officious entrances as a small house on Charlotte Street afforded.”

Poets Women Poets Christina Rossetti Victorian Society Pre Raphaelite 19th Century Poetry Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Book:The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

Source: The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

“One day in the country was worth a month in town and better than Christmas, her birthday, or even Papa saying she was like the moon risen at the full.”

Poets Women Poets Christina Rossetti Victorian Society Pre Raphaelite Victorian London 19th Century Poetry Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Book:The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

Source: The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

“He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light: Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.”

Poetry Christina Rossetti Pre Raphaelite Gabriel Rossetti Lizzie Siddal

Author:Christina Rossetti

“We are, in the main, 'word-blind' to Pre-Raphaelite and Decadent verse. This blindness results from a major change in habits of sensibility. Our contemporary sense of the poetic, our often unexamined presumptions about valid or spurious uses of figurative speech have developed from a conscious negation of fin de siécle ideals.”

Poetry Translation Philology Pre Raphaelite

Book:After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

Source: After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

“This photo is classic aestheticism. The engaging expression, the loose dress and fluid posture. Early to mid-1860's, if I had to guess." "It reminded me of the Pre-Raphaelites." "Related, definitely; and of course the artists of the time were all inspired by one another. They obsessed over things like nature and truth; color, composition, and the meaning of beauty. But where the Pre-Raphaelites strove for realism and detail, the painters and photographers of the Magenta Brotherhood were devoted to sensuality and motion." "There's something moving about the quality of light, don't you think?" "The photographer would be thrilled to hear you say so. Light was of principal concern to them: they took their name from Goethe's color wheel theories, the interplay of light and dark, the idea that there was a hidden color in the spectrum, between red and violet, that closed the circle. You have to remember, it was right in the middle of a period when science and art were exploding in all directions. Photographers were able to use technology in ways they hadn't before, to manipulate light and experiment with exposure times to create completely new effects.”

Light Photography Colors Aestheticism Magenta Sixties Pre Raphaelite

Book:The Clockmaker's Daughter

Source: The Clockmaker's Daughter