Dante Rossetti Timeline
This timeline will provide a general overview of the famous author and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The timeline will also include monumental moments for the Pre Raphaelite movement of which Rossetti was a core founder.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his work "Jenny"
This page looks at the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, specifically his poem Jenny. Rossetti was an extremely influencial English poet and artist who was a founder of the Pre Raphaelite movement. Artist and literary creators who identified with the Pre-Raphaelite genre aimed to break free from the idealistic and “rigid” structure of traditional Victorian art.
Jenny Annotation
Lazy laughing languid Jenny,
Fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea,
Whose head upon my knee to-night
Rests for a while, as if grown light
With all our dances and the sound
To which the wild tunes spun you round:
Fair Jenny mine, the thoughtless queen
Of kisses which the blush between
Could hardly make much daintier;
Whose eyes are as blue skies, whose hair
Is countless gold incomparable:
Fresh flower, scarce touched with signs that tell
Jenny Annotation
Annotation of the poem Jenny by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This work draws on annotations from Broadview Press and definitions from other reputatable sources such as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.