CONTENTS
Reading edition
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER I. Gabriele Rossetti—Boyhood—The pre-Raphaelite Movement—Early Manhood—The Blessed Damozel—Jenny—Sister Helen—The Translations—The House of Life—The Germ—Oxford and Cambridge Magazine—Blackfriars Bridge—Married Life
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER II. Chelsea—Chloral—Dante’s Dream—Recovery of the Poems—Poems—The Contemporary Controversy—Mr. Theodore Watts—Rose Mary—The White Ship—The King’s Tragedy—Poetic Continuations—Cloud Confines—Journalistic Slanders
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER III. Early Intercourse—Poetic Impulses—Beginning of Correspondence—Early Letters
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER IV. Inedited Poems—Inedited Ballads—Additions to Sister Helen—Hand and Soul—St. Agnes of Intercession—Catholic Opinion—Rossetti’s Catholicism—Cloud Confines—The Portrait
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER V. Coleridge—Wordsworth—Lamb and Coleridge—Charles Wells—Keats—Leigh Hunt and Keats—Keats’s Sister
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VI. Chatterton—Oliver Madox Brown—Gilchrist’s Blake—George Gilfillan—Old Periodicals—A Rustic Poet—Art and Politics—Letters in Biography
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VII. Cheyne Walk—The House—First Meeting—Rossetti’s Personality—His Reading—The Painter’s Craft—Mr. Ruskin—Rossetti’s Sensitiveness—His Garden—His Library
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER VIII. English Sonnets—Sonnet Structure—Shakspeare’s Sonnets—Wells’s Sonnet—Charles Whitehead—Ebenezer Jones—Mr. W. M. Rossetti—A New Sonnet—Mr. W. Davies—Canon Dixon—Miss Christina Rossetti—The Bride’s Prelude—The Supernatural in Poetry
CHAPTER IX.
Last Days—Vale of St John—In the Lake Country—Return to London—London—Birchington