The Germ : The Literary Magazine of the Pre-Raphaelites.

Rose, A. ; Ashmolean Museum ; Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.

Published by Ashmolean Museum, Oxford / Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1979 reprint of 1901 first edition, 1979

About this Item

Laminated wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm, xxiii, 192 pp, ills. From the blurb - "D. G. Rossetti conceived the idea of a literary journal shortly after the first exhibition by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1849. Four issues appeared in 1850 and were reprinted in facsimile in 1901 with an explanatory introduction by W. M. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel's younger brother who wrote: 'I am quite aware that some of the articles in 'The Germ' are far from good, and some others, though good on essentials, are to a certain extent juvenile; but juvenility is anything but uninteresting when it is that of such men as Coventry Patmore and Dante Rossetti.'. 'The Germ' contains short stories, essays and literary reviews, but most particularly poetry, such as Rossetti's The Blessed Demozel, Christina Rossetti's Dreamland, Beil Scott's Morning Sleep and Patmore's The Seasons, thus emphasising the claim that 'an attempt will be made, both intrinsically and by review, to claim for Poetry that place to which its present development in the literature of this country so emphatically entitles it'." Wrappers a trifle creased, edges slightly duststained and spotted, otherwise Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Germ : The Literary Magazine of the Pre-Raphaelites.
• Publisher: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford / Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1979 reprint of 1901 first edition
• Publication Date: 1979
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature