William Michael Rossetti

William Michael Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919) was a British writer, art critic, and prominent member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He played a key role in promoting the work of his siblings, including his brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti and sister Christina Rossetti, both famous poets. Rossetti edited several influential works, such as "The Germ," the Brotherhood’s journal, and also compiled Christina Rossetti’s poetry into anthologies. His writings on art and his memoirs offer valuable insights into Victorian literature and culture, making him a notable figure in 19th-century literary circles.

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CHAPTER I. A truism must do duty as my first sentence. There are long lives, and there are eventful lives: there are also short lives, and uneventful ones. Keats’s life was both short and uneventful. To the differing classes of lives different modes of treatment may properly be applied by the biographer. In the case of a writer whose life was both long and eventful, I might feel disposed to carry the... more...

During the summer of 1867 I had the opportunity (which I had often wished for) of expressing in print my estimate and admiration of the works of the American poet Walt Whitman.[1] Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences. One of these is the invitation which I have received to edit a selection from Whitman's writings; virtually... more...