. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . & ?8). T/ie loTig houTSsio and come andgo S^ MACMILLAN&CO. 1866 TITLE-PAGE TO THE PRINCES PROGRESS. ^ Cbristina IRossctti: 1bcr poetr\>. 261 latter is peculiar for its rhyme endings, the twenty-six lines having but one rhyme among them, yetkeeping the effect of dignity and variety. The ir-regular length of the lines, a trick of the Italiancanzone Mr. Rossetti reminds us, their rapiddactylic movement, the simplicity of the wholescheme, are appalling in view of the high intentionof the poem, but the intention is fully realised thoughit is diffic
. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . & ?8). T/ie loTig houTSsio and come andgo S^ MACMILLAN&CO. 1866 TITLE-PAGE TO THE PRINCES PROGRESS. ^ Cbristina IRossctti: 1bcr poetr\>. 261 latter is peculiar for its rhyme endings, the twenty-six lines having but one rhyme among them, yetkeeping the effect of dignity and variety. The ir-regular length of the lines, a trick of the Italiancanzone Mr. Rossetti reminds us, their rapiddactylic movement, the simplicity of the wholescheme, are appalling in view of the high intentionof the poem, but the intention is fully realised thoughit is difficult to think of any other hands throughwhich it could have passed triumphantly. In 1866 came another volume. The Prince s Pro-gress, and Other Poems, opening with another longnarrative poem, this time a romantic ballad, ex-tremely unequal in the merit of its stanzas, withtouches of magical sweetness and with exquisitecadences, but without the robust vitality of theearlier fairy-story. Some one has found in the de-scription of the waiting princess
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