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ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL. Autograph letter signed ("D G Rossetti") TO THE POET PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON, "Aldwick Lodge near Bognor," 30 November 1875. 4 pages, 8vo, remnant of mounting glue at top margin of fourth page.
A fine letter to the blind poet Marston, an associate of the Pre-Raphaelites. See section on him in Fredeman (pp. 194-196), who notes (p. 195): "Under the influence of Rossetti, Marston made the sonnet form his special verse form..."
Rossetti writes: "I ought to have answered your kind note before & thanked you for remembering one who keeps himself so much out of memory...I often think, as a very desirable exercise for your powers, of the idea of your making a series of poems derived from the most subtle & exquisite impressions of nature, like that wonderful piece of yours -- 'The Rose & the Wind.' Something of such a plan was said when we last met, & the result wd at any rate be intensely different from what others are doing. I don't know if you have seen Dr. [Thomas Gordon] Hake's New Symbols yet. The volume contains new & distinct conceptions & some really perfected work..."
A fine letter to the blind poet Marston, an associate of the Pre-Raphaelites. See section on him in Fredeman (pp. 194-196), who notes (p. 195): "Under the influence of Rossetti, Marston made the sonnet form his special verse form..."
Rossetti writes: "I ought to have answered your kind note before & thanked you for remembering one who keeps himself so much out of memory...I often think, as a very desirable exercise for your powers, of the idea of your making a series of poems derived from the most subtle & exquisite impressions of nature, like that wonderful piece of yours -- 'The Rose & the Wind.' Something of such a plan was said when we last met, & the result wd at any rate be intensely different from what others are doing. I don't know if you have seen Dr. [Thomas Gordon] Hake's New Symbols yet. The volume contains new & distinct conceptions & some really perfected work..."