This page will examine the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and specifically his poem Jenny. Rossetti was an extremely influential English artist and poet of the Victorian Era. As a founder of the Pre Raphaelites movement, Rossetti aimed to break free from the idealistic and “rigid” structure of traditional Victorian art.
Emily Crider
Emily Crider, Dino Franco Felluga, Kimberly Manganelli, Marjorie Stone, and Jerome S. Wynter
We collect here five poems about slavery that Elizabeth Barrett Browning (hereafter EBB) wrote over her career: her little-known juvenilia, “The African” (early 1820s), “The Appeal” (1833), “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1848), “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave” (1850), and “A Curse for a Nation” (1856). Each of these has been annotated with the goal of facilitating discussions in the undergraduate and graduate classroom.
