Poems By Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1873 Copyright Edition, Ex Libris Pastor Alexander Mackennal)

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Published some 5 years before the poet's death, this collection may not be complete, but it comes with a memoir by Franz Huffer, a German author with links to the Pre-Raphaelites through his wife's family, the Madox Browns, giving the reader a deeper appreciation and insight into the poet's life and work. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (1828-1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, & founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. He inspired both William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones and his work influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. His art was full of sensuality and medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats and William Blake, and later poetry was characterised by a 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. He frequently wrote sonnets to accompany his pictures, from "The Girlhood of Mary Virgin" (1849) to "Astarte Syriaca" (1877), while also creating art to illustrate poems such as "Goblin Market" by his celebrated sister Christina. Alexander Mackennal (1835-1904) was a British Nonconformist minister. In 1886, he was chairman of the Congregational Union, which he represented in 1889 at the triannual national council of the American Congregational churches. The first international council of Congregationalists held in London in 1891 was partly cause, partly consequence, of his visit, and Mackennal acted as secretary. By 1892 he was associated in the public mind with a movement for free church federation which grew out of a series of meetings held to discuss the question of home reunion. Francis Hueffer (1845-1889) was a German-English writer on music, music critic, and librettist. Our book is somewhat age-worn, bound in textured reddish-brown cloth with half-leather, the leather generally rubbed at all edges, the corners, and particularly on the spine, where the brief gilt title is almost now worn away. Inside, however, the sewn binding is firm with no loose pages, pages are clean but a little tanned generally, and foxing appears confined to just one or two spots on the fep, title page and dedication page. The main interest of the book lies in the ex libris, which tells us it belonged to Alexander Mackennal, who was a well-known non-Conformist pastor, and a leading figure in the Congregational Church.
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