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Rossetti

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Ros·set·ti  (r-zt), Dante Gabriel 1828-1882.
British poet and painter. A founder (1848) of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he is known for his portraits and his vividly detailed, mystic poems, including "The Blessed Damozel" (1850). His sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) wrote lyrical religious works and ballads, such as "Up-Hill" (1861).
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Noun1.RossettiRossetti - English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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He would never exactly reply to Philip's eager questioning, but with a merry, rather stupid laugh, hinted at a romantic amour; he quoted a few lines of Rossetti, and once showed Philip a sonnet in which passion and purple, pessimism and pathos, were packed together on the subject of a young lady called Trude.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
To make it fair, Ruskin had relit the seven lamps of architecture, and written the seven labours of Hercules; for these windows through a whole youth Burne Jones had worshipped painted glass at Oxford, and to breathe romance into these frescos had Rossetti been born, and Dante born again.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
George Eliot, 1819- Rossetti, 1828-82.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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