. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . n, brought balsamto Rossettis soul and grist to his mill. In 1847 heborrowed ten shillings of his brother to seize anopportunity for purchasing one of Blakes MS. booksat the museum, and the work of the two boys incopying out the tangled poetry and prose in theprecious volume was the basis of all their after Zbc Jfamlli?. 21 interest in Blake literature, and resulted finally, onWilliam Rossettis part, in the Aldine edition ofBlakes work, as yet without a rival. About this central current of inspiration Rossettislife played somewhat wantonly. The t
. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . n, brought balsamto Rossettis soul and grist to his mill. In 1847 heborrowed ten shillings of his brother to seize anopportunity for purchasing one of Blakes MS. booksat the museum, and the work of the two boys incopying out the tangled poetry and prose in theprecious volume was the basis of all their after Zbc Jfamlli?. 21 interest in Blake literature, and resulted finally, onWilliam Rossettis part, in the Aldine edition ofBlakes work, as yet without a rival. About this central current of inspiration Rossettislife played somewhat wantonly. The theatre, goodor bad, was a joy to him ; novels, trashy and great,were enormously admired by him ; artists ofmediocre talent fixed his attention ; he was fond ofjoking, of loud laughter, and, above all, fond of ad-miring, and of expressing his admiration. Thus hegravitated toward the point of departure from any-thing resembling conventional methods of training,until in 1848 he broke the bonds that could not holdhim so lightly as to be CHAPTER II. THE PRE-RAPHAELITES, ENGLISH ANDAMERICAN. PRE-RAPHAELITISM has suffered from thetendency of human nature to define a thing, in order, as someone has said, to savethe trouble of understanding it. Through variousand contradictory definitions it lias been held re-sponsible for many artistic sins and also creditedwith an amount of virtue it hardly could once the most discerning and least didactic state-ment of it is given by a painter who appreciated itsdramatic program without falling under its spell.^Pre-Raphaelitism, he says, is the Pre-RaphaeliteBrotherhood, of course. And this Brotherhoodwas what ? Little more in reality than a band of afew enthusiastic young men —( Thank God thatthey are young, said Ruskin)—who had eagerminds, interesting ideas to express, and a great deter-mination, not by any means upheld by their technicalskill, to express them. Their name, somewhat butnot altogether misleading, led to an up
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