Rossetti - His Life and Works

Evelyn Waugh''s first book, Rossetti, is an intimate account of Dante Gabriel Rossetti''s tragic and mysterious life: the story behind some of the greatest poetry and painting of the nineteenth century. Shot through with Waugh''s charm and dry wit, and illuminated by his sense of kinship with the Pre-Raphaelite artist, Rossetti is at once a brilliant reevaluation of Rossetti''s work and legacy, as well as a bold gesture of defiance against the art establishment of the 1920s.>

About the author

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

Product details

• Authors: Evelyn Waugh, Waugh Evelyn
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780241547885
• ISBN: 978-0-241-54788-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; England, ART / History / Romanticism, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Pre-Raphaelite, History of Art, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: arts and entertainment, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art, Literary studies: poetry and poets