. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . rt of my soul ; or these The sunrise blooms and withers on the hillLike any hill-flower, compensate a reader for the fluency that occasionall>^pnlls. It is not, however, any particular characteristic ofhis style in painting or in poetry that makes Rossettiso important a figure among his contemporaries. Itis what Mr. Watts-Dunton calls his vision, hispower of always seeing beneath the prosaic aspectof things and confronting us with realities that arehidden to the common sight. A sustained im-pressibility towards the mysterious conditions ofmans
. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . rt of my soul ; or these The sunrise blooms and withers on the hillLike any hill-flower, compensate a reader for the fluency that occasionall>^pnlls. It is not, however, any particular characteristic ofhis style in painting or in poetry that makes Rossettiso important a figure among his contemporaries. Itis what Mr. Watts-Dunton calls his vision, hispower of always seeing beneath the prosaic aspectof things and confronting us with realities that arehidden to the common sight. A sustained im-pressibility towards the mysterious conditions ofmans every-day life, towards the very mystery itselfin it, says Pater, gives a singular gravity to all hiswork ; these matters never became trite to have become trite to most of us, and we havecertainly to thank him for affording us one glimpseat this late time of a spirit that languishes in thesame environment with science and quoted with appreciation the saying of Keats : I value more the privilege of seeing great things. 226 Ji\yc IRoesettie. he ampl d teases his metaphors to the verge of ob e constantly introduces exquisite sin- gl s mat reconcile the mind and bewitch the ^ h images as these lines convey : iir until we meet is as a bird>. .vings frortl far his gradual way alongThe rustling covert of my soul ; or f]- The sunrise blooms and withers on the hill. Like ,)nv hill-flower. compensate a reaaer lor mc liueik) uiai occasionallypalls. e become trii ost of us, and we have a- thank him fo glimpse at this late time of a iushes in the same environment witli ivilisation. He quoted with appreciaiioi ^ymg of Keats : I value more the privil acting great th
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