Reviews for Dear Mr. Rossetti: The Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Hall Caine, 1878-1881

The average rating for Dear Mr. Rossetti: The Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Hall Caine, 1878-1881 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-04-05 00:00:00 Mark Davis Sydney Graham's letters were almost as good as his poems, which means they are very fine indeed. His crabbiness, his eccentricity, his irascibility, are all evident. But over and above that, so is his extraordinary creativity and his exuberant and breathtaking mastery of the language. These collected letters are a kind of masterclass in the art of making poetry; poetry, which as Harold Pinter rightly said, sends a shiver down the spine.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-09-09 00:00:00 Sandi Sinclair WS Graham's poem adapted for radio by Jonathan Davidson. With Siobhan Redmond and David Rintoul. Blurb - An attempt to make some sense of a difficult and elusive modern masterpiece. The poem was published in 1955. It tells of a fishing trip after herring but much else including the difficulties of writing and of turning experience into words. Its fresh-made language has found it many admirers but it also kept it from many other readers. Perhaps a radio adapatation can unlock it.