Description: This is a pocket-sized book measuring at approx 4.25in x 6in. It is the 1898 edition published by Ellis & Elvey, London. It is in excellent condition with a tight, solid binding and pages, and flat, strong boards. There is an inscription in pen on the ffep. The pages exhibit yellowing and foxing throughout. There are no torn or missing pages. The book has 118 numbered pages. Rossetti's "House of Life" is a collection of 100 sonnets, written over a longer period of time that describe the narrator’s relationship with two women. These are the wife, based on the poet's wife Elizabeth Siddal, and the woman in the affair, based on the poet's mistress Jane Morris. The sonnets within this collection are written as one continuous emotional roller coaster that torments the subject. The collection is divided into two sections, "Youth and Change" (Sonnets 1 to 59) and "Change and Fate" (Sonnets 60 to 101). Rossetti's "House of Life" was compiled and published over more than a decade, a work of personal love and lust the author cherished. The ethereal description of the personal emotions of the narrator make this collection exceptional as it allows for single sonnets to be taken out and read, or the whole thing as one long emotional journey. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti inspired the next generation of artists and writers, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones in particular. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. Rossetti's art was characterised by its sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats and William Blake. His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence The House of Life. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti's work.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: London
Language: English
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Publisher: Ellis & Elvey
Topic: Poetry
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject: Philosophy
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1898
