Fundamental Brainwork

Jerome McGann

  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Collected Writings edited by Jan Marsh
    Dent, 531 pp, £25.00, November 1999, ISBN 0 460 87875 1
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Painter and Poet by Jan Marsh
    Weidenfeld, 592 pp, £25.00, November 1999, ISBN 0 297 81703 5

‘Your fame is the colour of grass, which comes and goes, faded by the sun that drew it from the unripe earth’ (Purgatorio XI, 115-117). Dante Gabriel Rossetti did not translate that particular text, but he might have; perhaps he should have, given his cultural history.

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