. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . (Tbaractcr mt> ZTemperament 227 in loneliness than the fame of a prophet. And withstill greater zest he recounts the anecdote of Keatssproposing as a toast, Confusion to the memory ofNewton ! On Wordsworths wishing to know whj^before he drank it, the reply was, Because he de-stroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it toa prism. That is magnificent! he Rossetti also is magnificent because in his soul,that vexed island hung between the upper andnether world and liable to incursions from both, hisimagination never grew dim and
. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . (Tbaractcr mt> ZTemperament 227 in loneliness than the fame of a prophet. And withstill greater zest he recounts the anecdote of Keatssproposing as a toast, Confusion to the memory ofNewton ! On Wordsworths wishing to know whj^before he drank it, the reply was, Because he de-stroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it toa prism. That is magnificent! he Rossetti also is magnificent because in his soul,that vexed island hung between the upper andnether world and liable to incursions from both, hisimagination never grew dim and his interest in hu-man affections never flagged, from the beginning tothe CHAPTER XLCHRISTINA ROSSETTI. THE first mention we find of Christina Rossettiin the family letters of her brother, DanteGabriel, shows her a poet of twelve, con-tributing to one of the magazines edited by theyoung Rossettis two poems, in Dantes opinion very good and according to the later judgmentof her brother William, indisputably bad. Beyond1 such fragmentary glimpses of a thoughtful little girl,I not precocious, somewhat irritable, worshippinganimals, reading little and only what hit her f:incy,but knowing Keats at nine, and following the familyoccupations of verse-making and drawing, we seenothing of her until at eighteen she is posing for theVirgin in Rossettis first picture. She was then ofslight figure, with regular, serious features, lovelyeyes, and an extraordinary expression of pensivesweetness. Her manner was characterised by a cer-tain reserve and hauteur which, according to one ofher friends, gave her an air of doing everythingfrom self-respect, not from fellow-feeling w
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