World Literature Today, January 1st, 2002
Stockholm. Wahlstrom & Widstrand. 2001 68 pages. 190 kr. ISBN 91-46-18148-2 THE POINT OF DEPARTURE for this poetry collection is not only the biography of British poet and so-called Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82), but also a number of his paintings. Particularly Rossetti's relationship with Elizabeth Siddal, his wife since 1860, who, in 1862 committed suicide in desperation over having borne a stillborn child and over her husband's indifference toward her, has served as Harding's source of inspiration, together with Rossetti's later relationship with Jane Morris, the w...
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