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Article: The Pre-Raphaelites. (Guide to the Year's Work).(Dante Gabriel Rossetti)(Critical Essay)
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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The year brought worthwhile articles and scholarly editions to compensate for its scarcity of single-author monographs. Two recent articles on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poetry offer contrasting psychological and historical approaches. Joseph Bristow's "'He and I': Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Other Man" (VP 39, no. 3) sidesteps more familiar aspects of Rossetti's images of heterosexual frustration to focus on the male personae in poems such as "He and I" (sonnet XCVIII in "The House of Life") who preempt speakers' authority and identity and "solicit, only to betray, the poet-speaker's trust"--figures such as "Willowwood"'s allegorical image of "Love," for example, who weighs ...