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“... consecutive years in the late 1820s: Maria, Gabriel Charles (later to call himself Dante Gabriel), William and Christina. Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was a political exile, driven out of Italy as a result of his activities as a nationalist. A poet, an ardent Dante scholar and the centre of a group of expatriates, he became a professor of Italian at the ...”

“... value than the specific sources on which he drew.’ ‘Ulysses’ is also discussed at length by William Fredeman in ‘One Word More – on Tennyson’s Dramatic Monologues’. ‘Neither the Homeric or Dantean sources of the poem’, according to Professor Fredeman, provide much assistance in unravelling ‘the ...”

“... and, when in a rage, Christina could be a ripper and a smasher. The elder sister, Maria, and loyal William Michael were the ‘calms’. On ‘My heart is like a singing bird’ William’s editorial comment was: ‘I have more than once been asked whether I could account for the outburst of exuberant joy evidenced in this ...”