by Jerome H. Buckley (Editor)
This standard anthology presents major Pre-Raphaelite poets: Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris, Swinburne and George Meredith. Minor Pre-Raphaelite poets: William Michael Rossetti, Thomas Woolner, Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti, William Allingham, Richard Watson Dixon, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Philip Bourke Marston, Theodore WattsDunton. Polemic, Parody, and Criticism: John Ruskin, Robert Buchanan, Dante Rossetti, W.H. Mallock, Henry Duff Traill; W.S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde, and Walter Pater.
Author Biography
Jerome H. Buckley is Gurney Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Harvard University, where he began teaching in 1961. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the author of many books, among them The Victorian Temper, Tennyson: The Growth of a Poet, The Triumph of Time, and The Turning Key: Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse. He is the editor of the Riverside Edition of The Poems of Tennyson and Harvard's The Worlds of Victorian Fiction, among other texts. He died January, 2003.