Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers / edited and translated by Esther Singleton (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, Morse, Alice C. (Alice Cordelia), b. 1862, binding designer · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co · leaf 172
our subject looked upon himself ratheras a painter who wrote than as a verse-maker who painted.It is probable that the very facility, which, of course, hadbeen won with enormous pains, and was maintained withcharacteristic energy and constant care, of his literaryefforts led Rossetti to slightly… … Iltovi itfiNK. PROSERPINE 125 well as the most successful exponents of the passionatepoetry it was, by one means or the other, his object tomake manifest. His mission was that of a poet in art asin verse, and, by devoting the greater part of his life andall his more arduous efforts to the former…
Painting · Art criticism
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