RPO -- Selected Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

Selected Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2009, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell
(The House of Life: 97. A Superscription, 1-2)

Biographical information

Given name: Dante Gabriel
Family name: Rossetti
Birth date: 12 May 1828
Death date: 9 April 1882
Nationality: English
Ethnicity: Italian
Family relations
father: Gabriele Rossetti
mother: Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti
wife: Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (from 23 May 1860)
brother: William M. Rossetti
sister: Christina Rossetti (poet)
sister: Maria Francesca Rossetti
grandfather: Gaetano Polidori
Languages
English
Italian
Education
King's College
Royal Academy: 1846
Instruction from Ford Madox Brown
Literary movement: Pre-Raphaelite
Literary period: Victorian
Occupation: Painter
Residences
Birchington, near Margate to 9 April 1882
Cleveland Street, London
Newman Street, London
38 Charlotte Street, Portland Place: 12 May 1828
14 Chatham Place, Blackfriars Bridge: November 1852
Tuor House, Cheyne Walk: 1862
Illnesses
Neuralgia
Paralysis
Insomnia
Buried at: Tomb at Birchington
First RPO edition: 1997