The House of Life

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The House of Life

poetry by Rossetti

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
…and his finest achievement, “The House of Life,” is a sonnet sequence unique in the intensity of its evocation of the mysteries of physical and spiritual love. Here, as he claimed against his detractors, “the passionate and just delights of the body are declared to be as naught if not…
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…and his finest achievement, “The House of Life,” is a sonnet sequence unique in the intensity of its evocation of the mysteries of physical and spiritual love. Here, as he claimed against his detractors, “the passionate and just delights of the body are declared to be as naught if not…
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sonnet
…by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in The House of Life (1876). The most distinguished 20th-century work of the kind is Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnette an Orpheus (1922).
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…by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in The House of Life (1876). The most distinguished 20th-century work of the kind is Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnette an Orpheus (1922).
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