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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828 - 1882)

Index to poems

  1. Aspecta Medusa (for a Drawing)
  2. Autumn Song
  3. The Ballad of Dead Ladies
  4. The Blessed Damozel
  5. The Cloud Confines
  6. His Mother's Service to Our Lady
  7. The House of Life: 19. Silent Noon
  8. The House of Life: 22. Heart's Haven
  9. The House of Life: 36. Life-in-Love
  10. The House of Life: 41. Through Death to Love
  11. The House of Life: 66. The Heart of the Night
  12. The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
  13. The House of Life: 72. The Choice, II
  14. The House of Life: 73. The Choice, III
  15. The House of Life: 97. A Superscription
  16. The House of Life: The Sonnet
  17. Insomnia
  18. Love's Nocturn
  19. Love-Lily
  20. Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
  21. My Sister's Sleep
  22. The Portrait
  23. Sister Helen
  24. The Stream's Secret
  25. Sudden Light
  26. The Woodspurge
Biography: 
  • Bullen, J. B. "Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–1882)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Given Name: 
Dante Gabriel
Family Name: 
Rossetti
Birth Date: 
May 12, 1828
Death Date: 
April 9, 1882
Nationality: 
English
Ethnicity: 
Italian
Family Relations: 
father : Gabriele Rossetti
mother : Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti
sister : Christina Rossetti
sister : Maria Francesca Rossetti
brother : William M. Rossetti
grandfather : Gaetano Polidori
wife : Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (from 23 May. 1860)

Education

Spoken Languages: 
English
Italian

Occupations

Literary Period: 
Victorian
Literary Movement: 
Pre-Raphaelite

Illness

Buried At: 
All Saints Churchyard, Birchington, Kent
First RPO Edition: 
1997