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The best of
these letters, flowing rapidly from his pen, radiate charisma and
enthusiasm, warmth and care for his friends, and a total engagement
with art and literature. The young Rossetti emerges as a
distinctly more robust and unpredictable figure than fans of the
later Rossetti might expect... Rossetti is by turns earnest,
skittish, stiffly formal and exuberantly scatalogical. Impressive volumes...edited with
excellent attention to detail... Invaluable and fascinating reading.
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These handsome volumes are to be
warmly welcomed by all of us interested in the Pre-Raphaelites and
the Morris circle. Fredeman's knowledge of the period
and careful editing separates Rossetti from what he calls the
`bleak, reclusive, somnolent stereotype' portrayed by many of his
biographers. An exemplary model of
scholarship....Brings us closer to the Pre-Raphaelites than anyone
in the twenty-first century could otherwise ever imagine.... May
stand as [an] exemplary monument of modern editorial scholarship.
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