Victorian Literature and Material Culture Map
This map will include locations related to our course texts and the objects each class member has chosen for their material culture research project.
Victorian Literature and Material Culture Timeline
This timeline will include historic events related to our course texts and the objects each class member has chosen for their material culture research project.
Victorian Literature Commonplace Book
Commonplace books are notebooks or scrapbooks kept by readers and writers to help them reflect upon and remember useful or interesting ideas/concepts. Believed to have originated in the early modern period, commonplace books continued to be popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and could contain a variety of writing (and other media), such as: quotes, letters, poems, prayers, journal entries, recipes, images, or even advertisements.
Double Works
This critical introduction was originally published at the Rossetti Archive: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/racs/doubleworks.rac.html
Two Rossetti Sonnets Commemorating a Momentous Occasion
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A Sonnet is a moment's monument,— Memorial from the soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own intricate fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night prevail; and let Time see Its flowering crest impearled and orient. A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals |
The Sonnet and the Sequence
Rossetti's “Sonnet on the Sonnet” served not only as a gift for his mother's birthday and a reflection on a favorite poetic form. Placed at the head of The House of Life, a sonnet sequence on which Rossetti had been working for more than a dozen years, it also introduced the best known and most complete version of that work when it was published in 1881.
General Introduction
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem, "The Sonnet," is a testament to the ideals of the aesthetic movement; wedding form and content, it makes a statement about the idealizing purposes of art while illustrating the best way to achieve that purpose in the very stylistic features of a poem. The poem also betrays a number of concerns about the relation of a given aesthetic production to its reader. Is this poem a personal gift (pro Matre fecit) made for the occasion of DGR’s mother’s eightieth birthday?