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Through his exploration of new themes and his break with academic convention, Rossetti remains an important figure in the history of 19th-century English art. But his enduring worth probably lies as much in his poetry as in his painting. In contrast to his painting, where accumulated details of costume and greenery can become cloying, the detail in Rossetti’s poetry is subordinated to intensity of emotion and is employed to evoke a mood. It is by means of tiny and seemingly trivial touches, for example, that time is suspended in his poem “My Sister’s Sleep” and the very silence of the ...(100 of 1741 words)