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Article: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must Be Lost.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost. By JEROME MCGANN. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press. 2000. xviii + 188 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling].
In recent years the revival of interest in women's poetry has meant that Dante Gabriel Rossetti has been overshadowed by his younger sister Christina. A lingering prejudice against Aestheticism, inherited from those Modernist writers unwilling to admit their debts to the Victorians, has also helped foster this neglect so that D. G. Rossetti's poetry, like his painting, has been dismissed as 'brainless decoration', relegated, as Jerome McGann puts it in this welcome critical reassessment, to a ...