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Article: The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vols. 1-2: the Formative Years: Charlotte Street to Cheyne Walk (1835-1862).(Book Review)
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- Victorian Poetry
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- June 22, 2004
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The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, vols. 1-2: The Formative Years: Charlotte Street to Cheyne Walk (1835-1862), ed. William E. Fredeman. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002. $165.00 each vol.
William Fredeman's monumental edition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's letters has been long awaited by afficianadoes of Pre-Raphaelitism and by students of Victorian art and poetry. The edition is an appropriate capstone to two decades in which Pre-Raphaelite studies have flourished in ways that Fredeman himself could not have envisioned when his Pre-Raphaelitism: A Bibliocritical Study was published by Harvard in 1965. Since the early 1980s the academic and popular ...