Collected Poetry & Prose

A poet, writer and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as a dominating cultural presence in the second half of the 19th century. Jerome McGann, scholar of the 19th and 20th century, presents this selection of Rossetti's poetry, prose and original translations, with commentaries and notes. A major poet, writer, and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as the dominating cultural presence in the second half of the nineteenth century. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite movement, revised and reimagined Blake’s project of marrying images and texts, and was a shaping influence on Modernist aesthetic ideas and practices. His translations are original poetical works in their own right. Jerome McGann, a leading figure in nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, presents a generous selection of Rossetti’s poetry, prose, and original translations. The collection, which includes important writings unavailable in any edition of Rossetti ever printed, is accompanied by McGann’s learned and critically incisive commentaries and notes.