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 (rō-zĕt′ē), 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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Rossetti

(rɒˈzɛtɪ)
n
1. (Biography) Christina Georgina. 1830–94, British poet
2. (Biography) her brother, Dante Gabriel. 1828–82, British poet and painter: a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites
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Ros•set•ti

(roʊˈsɛt i, -ˈzɛt i, rə-)

n.
1. Christina Georgina, 1830–94, English poet.
2. her brother, Dante Gabriel (Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti), 1828–82, English poet and painter.
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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.
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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.
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Of other modern poets I have read some things of William Morris, like the "Life and Death of Jason," the "Story of Gudrun," and the "Trial of Guinevere," with a pleasure little less than passionate, and I have equally liked certain pieces of Dante Rossetti. I have had a high joy in some of the great minor poems of Emerson, where the goddess moves over Concord meadows with a gait that is Greek, and her sandalled tread expresses a high scorn of the india-rubber boots that the American muse so often gets about in.
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They talked together on Swinburne and Rossetti, after which she led him beyond his depth into the by- paths of French literature.
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Suppose Queen Victoria gave a dinner-party, and that the guests had been Leighton, Millais, Swinburne, Rossetti, Meredith, Fitzgerald, etc.
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HANDBRIDGE resident Lisa Rossetti and her friend Rhiannon Taylor have launched a Pink Poo campaign to encourage dog owners to respect the area.
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The walls of the drawing room at 30 Torrington Square, the house in which Christina Rossetti (1830-94) spent the final years of her life, were filled with family portraits.
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Press), as its title indicates, places Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites in the context of late century and modernist celebrity culture.
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Sparked by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, the crimes are solved by a crack team of poets and painters: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his sister Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson and the American doctor-poet-essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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Este espacio alternativo o "tercer espacio" que surge de las tensiones culturales, politicas, mentales y emocionales, sirve para cuestionar las funciones de la sociedad y adquiere una posicion aun mas significativa, ya que refleja la situacion politica del pueblo saharaui al que Rossetti dirige su libro.
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Fresh Rossetti Do not read too much into Rossetti's 154-day absence as he loves summer ground - a winter break was always on the agenda.
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Women in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Arthurian Renditions (1854-1867).
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