Pre-Raphaelites In the Garden
What draws Pre-Raphaelite artists and writers to enclosed gardens? Find out with Dr Dinah Roe, who will take us on a tour of garden pictures and poems by Charles Collins, Christina Rossetti, and William Morris, among others. We will explore to what extent these walled spaces are liberating or confining, natural or artificial, finite or infinite, and think about what causes this nineteenth-century shift towards interiority in both gardens and their representation.
Dinah Roe is Reader in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, specialising in Pre-Raphaelitism and Victorian Poetry. She is the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin. She is currently editing Christina Rossetti’s Complete Poems for the Longman Annotated English Poets series, and working on a British Academy funded project examining the connections between Rossetti’s creativity and her work as a carer.
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What draws Pre-Raphaelite artists and writers to enclosed gardens? Find out with Dr Dinah Roe, who will take us on a tour of garden pictures and poems by Charles Collins, Christina Rossetti, and William Morris, among others. We will explore to what extent these walled spaces are liberating or confining, natural or artificial, finite or infinite, and think about what causes this nineteenth-century shift towards interiority in both gardens and their representation.
Dinah Roe is Reader in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, specialising in Pre-Raphaelitism and Victorian Poetry. She is the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin. She is currently editing Christina Rossetti’s Complete Poems for the Longman Annotated English Poets series, and working on a British Academy funded project examining the connections between Rossetti’s creativity and her work as a carer.
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