Excerpt from Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Man of Letters So many books, from pens so eminent, have already appeared on the life and work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, that the hazardous experiment of adding to their number could hardly have been made without the direct encouragement of a publisher perhaps too kind. The present monograph cannot claim to contain any new facts or discoveries, the aim of the writer having been to tell the story of Rossetti' 3 life as far as possible in Rossetti' s own words and in the words of the most unimpeachable eye-witnesses of his career and progress; while in criticism it has been his constant endeavour to steer a judicial middle course between the Scylla of infatuation and the Charybdis of irrelevant censure. The reader, then, will readily perceive that there is little in the following pages which cannot be found, with more or less trouble, in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.