Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must be Lost A. Christine McCartney Aged seventeen

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" --- New York Herald Tribune

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must be Lost A. Christine McCartney Aged seventeenWhy did the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti come to dominate the cultural geography of England between 1850 and 1910? And why, having attained that kind of eminence, did Rossetti's star decline so precipitously with the advent of Modernism? Finally, what is there about Rossetti's work and its historical aftermath that makes these questions important ones to ask? The cultural and aesthetic problems raised by those questions are the subject of this