biography
| name: |
Rossetti, William Michael
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pronunciation:
[rozetee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1829–1919)
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| biography:
| Art critic and man of letters, born in London, UK, the younger son of Gabriele Rossetti. He started as an official in the Inland Revenue, and became art critic of the Spectator from 1850. He wrote biographies of Shelley and Keats, and published editions of Coleridge, Milton, Blake, and Whitman. Like all his family he was devoted to the study of Dante, whose Inferno he translated. |
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