Rossetti (1-6 reversed) Flashcards
1
Q
“There is not much thinking in them, not much high or deep feeling, no passion”
A
Saturday Review, 1866
2
Q
“Your sister should exercise herself in the severest commonplace of meter until she can write as the public like.”
A
John Ruskin, in a letter to Dante Rossetti about Goblin Market.
3
Q
“something impelled her feelings…and her hand obeyed the diction”
A
William Rossetti
4
Q
“the most valuable poet that the Victorian Age produced.”
A
Ford Madox Brown
5
Q
“starved into austere emaciation a very fine original gift”
A
Virginia Woolf
6
Q
“The pressure of a tremendous faith encircles…these little songs”
A
Virginia Woolf (2)
