CONTENTS

[ 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

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RECOLLECTIONS OF
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

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