By Penelope Fitzgerald,Frances Spalding
ISBN-10: 0007588224
ISBN-13: 9780007588220
ISBN-10: 0718113675
ISBN-13: 9780718113674
Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning writer of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’, turns her consciousness to the amazing lifetime of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.
‘I suggest by way of an image a gorgeous, romantic dream of anything that by no means was once, by no means might be, in a mild higher than any gentle that ever shone – in a land not anyone can outline or have in mind, merely hope’ Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was once the prototypical pre-Raphaelite yet with a very person sensibility. Penelope Fitzgerald’s pleasant biography charts his existence from humble beginnings in Birmingham because the son of an unsuccessful framer, via a transformative interval at Oxford, the place he met his shut good friend and collaborator William Morris, and directly to the apprenticeship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti that might form his inventive vision.
His paintings harks again to an Arthurian England – an Arcadia that provided solace opposed to the onset of the economic Revolution, and on a deeply own point supplied respite from his ever-present melancholia. this can be an illuminating portrait of a desirable determine – inventive genius, doting father, stricken husband – written with all Penelope Fitzgerald’s attribute sympathy and insight.
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