CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

Gabriele Rossetti - Boyhood - The pre-Raphaelite Movement - Early

Manhood - The Blessed Damozel - Jenny - Sister Helen - The Translations - The

House of Life - The Germ - Oxford and Cambridge Magazine - Blackfriars

Bridge - Married Life

CHAPTER II.

Chelsea - Chloral - Dante's Dream - Recovery of the Poems - Poems - The

Contemporary Controversy - Mr. Theodore Watts - Rose Mary - The

White Ship - The King's Tragedy - Poetic Continuations - Cloud

Confines - Journalistic Slanders

CHAPTER III.

Early Intercourse - Poetic Impulses - Beginning of Correspondence - Early

Letters

CHAPTER IV.

Inedited Poems - Inedited Ballads - Additions to Sister Helen - Hand

and Soul - St. Agnes of Intercession - Catholic Opinion - Rossetti's

Catholicism - Cloud Confines - The Portrait

CHAPTER V.

Coleridge - Wordsworth - Lamb and Coleridge - Charles Wells - Keats - Leigh

Hunt and Keats - Keats's Sister

CHAPTER VI.

Chatterton - Oliver Madox Brown - Gilchrist's Blake - George Gilfillan - Old

Periodicals - A Rustic Poet - Art and Politics - Letters in Biography

CHAPTER VII.

Cheyne Walk - The House - First Meeting - Rossetti's Personality - His

Reading - The Painter's Craft - Mr. Ruskin - Rossetti's Sensitiveness - His

Garden - His Library

CHAPTER VIII.

English Sonnets - Sonnet Structure - Shakspeare's Sonnets - Wells's

Sonnet - Charles Whitehead - Ebenezer Jones - Mr. W. M. Rossetti - A New

Sonnet - Mr. W. Davies - Canon Dixon - Miss Christina Rossetti - The Bride's

Prelude - The Supernatural in Poetry

CHAPTER IX.

Last Days - Vale of St John - In the Lake Country - Return to

London - London - Birchington