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Geoffrey Chaucer
was born around 1343 in London known as the Father of English Literature, and considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey. His ‘Canterbury Tales’ follows the Pilgrim’s Way from London to Canterbury.
Major works
Translation of Roman de la Rose, possibly extant as The Romaunt of the Rose
Translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as Boece
Short poems
An ABC
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn
The Complaint unto Pity
The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse
The Complaint of Venus
A Complaint to His Lady
The Former Age
Fortune
Gentilesse
Lak of Stedfastnesse
Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan
Lenvoy de Chaucer a Bukton
Proverbs
Balade to Rosemounde
Truth
Womanly Noblesse
He died 25 October 1400.
Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC born 18 August 1792 in Mayfair, London a Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister from 1846 to 1852 and, 1865 to 1866.
Died on the 28th May 1878 at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 12 May 1828, London was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He painted Dante’s Dream between 1869 and 1871. He wrote ‘The Blessed Damozel’ (poem), in1847.
Paintings
1840s
Self-portrait (1847), National Portrait Gallery, London.
Bottles (1848), Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington.
Mary's Girlhood (For a Picture) or The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1848-49), Tate Britain, London.
The Laboratory (1849), Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
1850s
"Hist!", Said Kate the Queen (1851), Eton College.
Ecce Ancilla Domini or The Annunciation (1850), Tate Britain, London.
Borgia (1851), Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle.
Two Mothers (1852), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Carlisle Wall or The Lovers (1853), Tate Britain, London.
The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice or Dante drawing an angel (1853), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Elizabeth Siddal (1854), Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Found (1854), Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Paolo and Francesca da Rimini (1855), Tate Britain, London.
The Annunciation (1855), Agnew's Gallery, London.
Arthur's Tomb or The last meeting of Launcelot and Guenevere (1855), Tate Britain, London.
Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah (1855), Tate Britain, London.
The Passover in the Holy Family: Gathering Bitter Herbs (1855-56), Tate Britain, London.
The Blue Closet (1856-57), Tate Britain, London.
Dante's Dream on the Day of the Death of Beatrice: 9th of June, 1290 or Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice (1856), Tate Britain, London.
Mary in the House of St. John (1858), Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
The Damsel of the Sanct Grael (1857), Tate Britain, London.
The Gate of Memory (1857), The Makins Collection.
Mary Magdalene Leaving the House of Feasting (1857), Tate Britain, London.
Mary Nazarene (1857), Tate Britain, London.
The Tune of Seven Towers (1857), Tate Britain, London.
The Wedding of St. George and the Princess Sabra (1857), Tate Britain, London.
The Death of Breuze Sans Pitié (1857-65), Virginia Surtees.
The Harp Player (1857), private collection.
Writing on the Sand (1857-58), British Museum, London.
St. Catherine (1857), Tate Britain, London.
Chapel Before the Lists (1857-64), Tate Britain, London.
A Christmas Carol (1857-8), Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University.
Before the Battle (1858), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Golden Water or Princess Parisadé (1858), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
The Seed of David (1858-64), Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff.
The Bower Garden (1859), Dr. G. L. Leathart.
My Lady Greensleeves (1859), British Museum, London.
Sir Galahad at the Ruined Chapel (1859), Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
The Salutation of Beatrice or Salutatio Beatricis (1859), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
1860s
Dantis Amor (1860), Tate Britain, London.
Bocca Baciata (1860), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The Farmer's Daughter or Hanging the Mistletoe or Girl Tying Up Mistletoe (1860), private collection.
Lucrezia Borgia (1860-61, 1868), Tate Britain, London.
Regina Cordium (1860), Johannesburg Art Gallery.
Regina Cordium (1861), Mrs. L. D. Jackson.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1861), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
The Annunciation (1861), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Fair Rosamund (1861), National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
Love's Greeting (c.1861), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
St. George and the Princess Sabra (1862), Tate Britain, London.
The Story of St. George and the Dragon: The Princess Sabra Drawing the Lot (1861-62, 1868), Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
Girl at a Lattice, (1862), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Mrs. James Leathart (1862), Mrs. T.H. Leathart.
Belcolore (1863), current location unknown.
Helen of Troy (Rossetti painting) (1863), Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Woman in Yellow (1863), Tate Britain, London.
Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance (1863), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg.
Fazio's Mistress or Aurelia (1863;1873), Tate Britain, London.
La Castagnetta or The dancing girl or The daughter of Herodias (1863), Jerrold N. Moore.
My Lady Greensleeves (1863), Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University.
Beata Beatrix (1864), Tate Britain, London.
How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival were Fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way (1864), Tate Britain, London.
Emily Heimann (1864), private collection.
Monna Pomona (1864), Tate Britain, London.
Morning Music (1864), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Venus Verticordia (1864-68), Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth
Woman Combing Her Hair (1864), Virginia Surtees.
The First Madness of Ophelia (1864), Gallery Oldham.
The Blue Bower (1865), The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham.
A Fight for a Woman (1865), Detroit Institute of the Arts.
Il Ramoscello or Bella e Buona (1865), Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University.
The Merciless Lady (1865), Charles Handley–Read.
Miss Burton (1865), The Honorable Colin Tennant.
The Beloved or The Bride or The King's Daughter (1865-66, 1873), Tate Britain, London.
Monna Vanna or Belcolore (1866), Tate Britain, London.
Regina Cordium (1866), Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.
Sibylla Palmifera or Venus Palmifera (1866-70), Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.
A Christmas Carol (1867), The Viscount Leverhulme.
Joli Coeur (1867), Manchester Art Gallery.
The Loving Cup (1867), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo.
Sir Tristram and La Belle Yseult Drinking the Love Potion (1867), Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, England.
Mrs. William Morris or The Blue Silk Dress (1868), Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire.
Lady Lilith (1867), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.[3]
Lady Lilith (1868), Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Pia de' Tolomei (c.1868), Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas.
1870s
Mrs. William Morris (c.1870), Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton.
Mariana (1870), Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Silence (1870), Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.
La Donna della Finestra (1870), Bradford Art Gallery.
Pandora, (1871), private collection.
Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice, (1869-1871), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Water Willow (1871), Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
The Bower Meadow (1872), Manchester Art Gallery.
Veronica Veronese (1872), Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Blanzifiore (1873), Collection of Lord Lloyd-Webber.
La Ghirlandata (1873), Guildhall Art Gallery, London.
Marigolds or Bower Maiden or Fleurs de Marie or Gardener's Daughter (1873), Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery .
Proserpine (1874), Tate Britain, London.
Damsel of the Sanct Grael (1874), collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Roman Widow or Dîs Manibus (1874), Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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La Bella Mano (1875), Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
The Death of Lady Macbeth' (1875), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Astarte Syriaca or Venus Astarte (1876-77), Manchester Art Gallery.
Mnemosyne or Lamp of Memory or Ricordanza (1876-1881), Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
A Sea–Spell (1877), Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University.
Mary Magdalene (1877), Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Bruna Brunelleschi (1878), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
A Vision of Fiammetta (1878), Collection of Lord Lloyd-Webber.
Pandora (1878), Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.
Beatrice (1879), Charles Butler.
La Donna della Finestra or The Lady of Pity (1879), Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University.
1880s
The Day Dream or Monna Primavera (1880), Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
The Blessed Damozel (1875-1881), Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.
The Salutation of Beatrice (1880-81), Toledo Museum of Art.
Proserpine (1882), Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham.
Books
The Early Italian Poets (a translation), 1861; republished as Dante and His Circle, 1874
Poems, 1870; revised and reissued as Poems. A New Edition, 1881
Ballads and Sonnets, 1881
The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 2 volumes, 1886 (posthumous)
Ballads and Narrative Poems, 1893 (posthumous)
Sonnets and Lyrical Poems, 1894 (posthumous)
The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1911 (posthumous)
Poems and Translations 1850-1870, Together with the Prose Story 'Hand and Soul', Oxford University Press, 1913
Double works
"Rossetti divided his attention between painting and poetry for the rest of his life" - Poetry Foundation
Aspecta Medusa (1865 October – 1868)
Astarte Syriaca (for a Picture; 1877 January–February; 1875–1877)
Beatrice, her Damozels, and Love (1865?)
Beauty and the Bird (1855; 1858 June 25)
The Blessed Damozel (1847–1870; 1871–1881)
Bocca Baciata (1859–1860)
Body's Beauty (1864–1869; 1866)
The Bride's Prelude [1848–1870 (circa)]
Cassandra (for a drawing; September 1869; 1860–1861, 1867, 1869)
Dante's Dream on the Day of the Death of Beatrice: 9 June 1290 (1875 [?], 1856)
Dante Alighieri. “Sestina. Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni.” (1848 [?], 1861, 1874)
Dante at Verona [1848–1850; 1852 (circa)]
The Day-Dream (for a picture; 1878–1880, 1880 September)
Death of A Wombat (1869 November 6)
Eden Bower [1863–1864 (circa) or 1869 (circa)]
Fazio's Mistress (1863; 1873)
Fiammetta [for a picture; 1878 (circa) 1878]
“Found” (for a picture; 1854; 1881 February)
Francesca Da Rimini. Dante (1855; 1862 September)
Guido Cavalcanti. “Ballata. He reveals, in a Dialogue, his increasing love for Mandetta.” (1861)
Hand and Soul (1849)
Hero's Lamp (1875)
Introductory Sonnet ("A Sonnet is a moment's monument"; 1880)
Joan of Arc [1879 (unfinished), 1863, 1882]
La Bella Mano (for a picture; 1875)
La Pia. Dante (1868–1880)
Lisa ed Elviro (1843)
Love's Greeting (1850, 1861, 1864)
Mary's Girlhood [for a picture; 1848 (sonnet I), 1849 (sonnet II)]
Mary Magdalene at the Door of Simon the Pharisee (for a drawing; 1853–1859; 1869)
Michael Scott's Wooing (for a drawing; 1853, 1869–1871, 1875–1876)
Mnemosyne (1880)
Old and New Art [group of 3 poems; 1849 (text); 1857 (picture, circa)]
On William Morris (1871 September)
Pandora (for a picture; 1869; 1868–1871)
Parody on “Uncle Ned” (1852)
Parted Love! [1869 September – 1869 November (circa)]
The Passover in the Holy Family (for a drawing; 1849–1856; 1869 September)
Perlascura. Twelve Coins for One Queen (1878)
The Portrait (1869)
Proserpine (1872; 1871–1882)
The Question (for a design; 1875, 1882)
“Retro me, Sathana!” (1847, 1848)
The Return of Tibullus to Delia (1853–1855, 1867)
A Sea-Spell (for a Picture; 1870, 1877)
The Seed of David (for a picture; 1864)
Silence. For a Design (1870, 1877)
Sister Helen [1851–1852; 1870 (circa)]
Sorrentino (1843)
Soul's Beauty (1866; 1864–1870)
St. Agnes of Intercession (1850; 1860)
Troy Town (1863–1864; 1869–1870)
Venus Verticordia (for a picture; 1868 January 16; 1863–1869)
William and Marie. A Ballad (1841)
He died on Easter Sunday 9th April 1882, (aged 53) Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, at the country house of a friend.
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