Opis: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Vol. 1 - Rossetti William Michael

Excerpt from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Vol. 1: His Family-Letters; With a Memoir

In his Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1882) Mr. Hall Caine has informed us: "It was always known to be Rossetti's wish that, if at any moment after his death it should appear that the story of his life required to be written, the one friend who, during many of his later years, knew him most intimately, and to whom he unlocked the most sacred secrets of his heart, Mr. Theodore Watts, should write it, unless indeed it were undertaken by his brother William."

Dante Rossetti died on 9 April 1882; and after the lapse of a few months I decided to put his Family-Letters into shape for early publication. Mr. Watts acquiesced in the wish which I then entertained, and which I should still entertain, that he, rather than myself, should be the biographer, writing a Memoir to accompany the Letters. Doubtless he saw reason for not producing his Memoir so soon as I had been expecting it; therefore, after a rather long interval of years, I resolved in July 1894 that the Letters must now come out, and, as they could not be unlinked with a Memoir, that I myself would write it The result is before the reader. If he would have preferred a Memoir from Mr. Watts, I sympathize with him, but the option had ceased to be mine. There are several reasons why a brother neither is nor can 4 be the best biographer.

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Szczegóły: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Vol. 1 - Rossetti William Michael

Nazwa: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Vol. 1 His Family-Letters; With a Memoir (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Rossetti William Michael
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330779224
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 488
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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