CONTENTS
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 LifeCHAPTER 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 SlandersCHAPTER III.
Early Intercourse—Poetic Impulses—Beginning of Correspondence—Early
LettersCHAPTER IV.
Inedited Poems—Inedited Ballads—Additions to Sister Helen—Hand
and Soul—St. Agnes of Intercession—Catholic Opinion—Rossetti’s
Catholicism—Cloud Confines—The PortraitCHAPTER V.
Coleridge—Wordsworth—Lamb and Coleridge—Charles Wells—Keats—Leigh
Hunt and Keats—Keats’s SisterCHAPTER VI.
Chatterton—Oliver Madox Brown—Gilchrist’s Blake—George Gilfillan—Old
Periodicals—A Rustic Poet—Art and Politics—Letters in BiographyCHAPTER VII.
Cheyne Walk—The House—First Meeting—Rossetti’s Personality—His
Reading—The Painter’s Craft—Mr. Ruskin—Rossetti’s Sensitiveness—His
Garden—His LibraryCHAPTER 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 PoetryLast Days—Vale of St John—In the Lake Country—Return to
London—London—Birchington