THE POEMS OF ELIZABETH SIDDAL IN CONTEXT

A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, adding substant ially to knowledge of her work as a writer, and their shared contemporary concerns. Dante Rossetti, Swinburne, Tennyson, Ruskin and Keats were either known to her or a source of influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with which she was associated, and certain of their texts are compared with hers to discuss interplay between erotic and spiritual love, the ballad tradition, nineteenth-century feminis...[Read more]