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Those who are acquainted with my former writings must be aware that I use the word 'romantic' always in a noble sense meaning the habit of regarding the external and real world as a Slnger of Romaunts would have regarded it in the middle ages, and as Scott, Burns, Byron, and Tennyson have regarded it in our own times. But, as Rossetti' s colour was based on the for mer art Of illumination, so his romance was based on traditions of earlier and more sacred origin than those which have inspired our highest modern romantic literature. That literature has in all cases remained strongest in dealing with contemporary fact. The genius of Tennyson is at its highest in the poems of.' Maud,' 'ia Memoriam,' and the 'northern Farmer but that of Ros sr as of his greatest disciple, is seen only when on pilgrimage in Palestine.
I trust that Mr. Holman Hunt will not think thatin speak ing of him as Rossetti's disciple I derogate from the respect due to his Ovm noble and determined genius. In all living schools it chances often that the disciple is greater than his master and it is always the first sign Of a dominant and Splendid intellect, that it knows of whom to learn. Rossetti's great poetical genius justified my claiming for him total, and, I believe, earliest, originality in the sternly materialistic, though deeply reverent veracity, with which alone, of all schools of painters, this brotherhood of Englishmen has conceived the circumstances of the life of Christ. And if I had to choose one picture which represented in purity and completeness, this manner of their thought, it would be Rossetti's 'virgin in the House of St. John.'
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- Publication date2018
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- ISBN 13 9781330684740
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- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages44
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