Book description
The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday
in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and
Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite
poetry ?etherialized sensation? (in the words of Antony Harrison), and
popularized the notion ofl?art pour l?art ? art for art?s sake. Where
Victorian realist novels explored the grit and grime of the Industrial
Revolution, Pre-Raphaelite poems concentrated on more abstract themes of
romantic love, artistic inspiration and sexuality. Later they attracted
Aesthetes and Decadents like Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Ernest
Dowson, not to mention Gerard Manley Hopkins and W. B. Yeats. Dinah
Roe is a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and a freelance
writer whose interests include the nineteenth-century novel, Victorian
poetry, and women's writing. Born and raised in the United States, she
holds degrees from Vassar College (USA) and University College London.
She has written
Christina Rossetti's Faithful Imagination
(2006), and is currently working on a book about the Rossetti family
and their circle. She lives in London.
