{"product_id":"rossetti-his-life-and-works","title":"Rossetti: His Life and Works","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Evelyn Waugh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA plain account \u003c\/b\u003eof Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his life and works, may merit interest and attention for two reasons, writes Evelyn Waugh. First, taking Rossetti simply as a character for a story, his life is one of intense interest; second, his turgid and perverse genius provides a needed kick to conventional aesthetic standards. A fascinating account of Rossetti’s consistently mysterious, at times vapid, but ultimately tragic life combines, under Waugh’s deft hand, with a presentation of the provocative person­alities, Pre-Raphaelite and otherwise, of Rossetti’s world—Ford Madox Brown, John Ruskin, William Morris, and others—as well as of his muses Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Schott, and Jane Morris, and his creations by both paint and poetic pen. The portrait of Rossetti which results is at once keenly perceptive, modestly amusing, and undeniably interesting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eWaugh’s first book, commissioned by the publisher and published in 1928, \u003ci\u003eRossetti: His Life and Works \u003c\/i\u003eis a critical entry in the Waugh canon. It is also an accomplishment of both art history and criticism, thanks to its candid presentation of that “baffled and very tragic figure of an artist born into an age devoid of artistic standards…a mystic without a creed; a Catholic without the discipline or consolation of the Church; a life between the rocks and the high road.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvelyn Waugh\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(1903–1966) was an English Catholic writer. Acclaimed by Graham Greene as the greatest novelist of their generation, Waugh wrote more than a dozen novels as well as numerous essays, short stories, and works of biography and travelogue. In addition to his best-known novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1945), his fiction includes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Handful of Dust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1934),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Loved One\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(1948), and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelena\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(1950), and his 1959 biography of Monsignor Ronald Knox (for whom he served as literary executor) is an exemplar of its genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953805\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42861720567902,"sku":"978-1685953805","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0652\/2929\/1614\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1222.jpg?v=1780986775","url":"https:\/\/nez-emporium.com\/products\/rossetti-his-life-and-works","provider":"Nez Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}