Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was a painter and poet. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Autograph verse by D.G. Rossetti, copied for Mrs William Morris, mainly printed, with many differences in the text, in The works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ed. W.M. Rossetti (London, 1911).

The verse was given to the Library by the literary executor of May Morris in 1939.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 46390-1.

Poetry

Rossetti | Dante Gabriel | 1828-1882 | Painter and Poet