Selected Poems by Dante Gabriel ROSSETTI read by Leonard Wilson | Full Audio Book

Selected Poems by Dante Gabriel ROSSETTI (1828 - 1882) and Christina ROSSETTI (1830 - 1894)
Genre(s): Poetry, Anthologies

Read by: Leonard Wilson in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Silent Noon
00:01:45 - 02 - A Birthday
00:03:07 - 03 - A Little While
00:04:55 - 04 - Remember
00:06:19 - 05 - My Sister's Sleep
00:10:14 - 06 - Maude Claire
00:12:59 - 07 - Sudden Light
00:14:22 - 08 - Dream Land
00:16:18 - 09 - Soul's Beauty
00:17:55 - 10 - Body's Beauty
00:19:34 - 11 - Goblin Market
00:42:47 - 12 - Autumn Song
00:44:12 - 13 - Song
00:45:29 - 14 - The Choice I, II & III
00:49:32 - 15 - After Death
00:51:13 - 16 - The Love Letter
00:52:47 - 17 - No, Thank You, John
00:55:00 - 18 - The Hill Summit
00:56:33 - 19 - Love From the North
00:59:00 - 20 - The Blessed Damozel
01:06:44 - 21 - At Home
01:09:13 - 22 - A Day of Love
01:10:48 - 23 - Last Night
01:13:39 - 24 - Insomnia
01:15:35 - 25 - In the Round Tower at Jhansi
01:17:33 - 26 - Mary's Girlhood (For a Picture)
01:19:15 - 27 - Somewhere or Other
01:20:38 - 28 - The Ballad of Dead Ladies
01:22:57 - 29 - Helen Grey
01:24:50 - 30 - Lost Days
01:26:29 - 31 - An End
01:28:02 - 32 - Sister Helen
01:42:24 - 33 - Uphill
01:44:01 - 34 - The One Hope
01:45:35 - 35 - Children's Poems, from Sing-Song

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of Victorian England. Members of a highly cultured Italian immigrant family, they achieved widespread fame and exerted a significant influence upon the poetry and art of their time.Dante Gabriel was a co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of painters, contributing to a renewed interest in medieval themes and techniques. Both his painting and his poetry anticipated the Aesthetic movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His deep intellect and highly emotional nature are reflected in poems that exhibit a combination of complex symbolism and powerful feeling. He was a master of the sonnet form, as best exemplified in his book The House of Life.Christina served as a model for some of her brother's early paintings, and she was closely identified with the Pre-Raphaelites. Her poetry is more accessible and displays perhaps a greater felicity of expression than her brother's. Today she holds a higher reputation, often being ranked (sometimes rather condescendingly) among the leading women poets. Other critics, quite appropriately, consider her a major poet without the feminine label. A deeply devout person, she never married, although she eventually rejected two suitors, both for religious reasons. She produced a large body of Christian poetry, which is not represented in this collection. She also wrote many delightful poems for children. (Summary by Leonard Wilson)