ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Goblin Market
4 Apr 2018
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Pre-raphaelites: a group of male artists who were interested in the sister arts, painting and poetry. Formed by dante gabriel rossetti, john everett millais, william holman hunt; later william morris. The paintings are usually bright, lush, varied palette of colour; rich patterning; flattened picture plane; influence of medieval italian painters before raphael; symbolism. Poetr(cid:455): (cid:862)lush (cid:448)o(cid:449)el sou(cid:374)ds, se(cid:374)suous des(cid:272)riptio(cid:374), su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hologi(cid:272)al states, elaborate personification, and complex poetic forms such as the sestina, borrowed from italian and provencal love poetr(cid:455). (cid:863) Isabella and lorenzo (in the painting) are talking and he is giving her an orange. However, her brothers are unhappy and taunt him, kick her dog and then eventually kill and burry lorenzo. Isabella preserves his head and buries it in basil. Goblin market: begins with a description of a market. There are plump, unpecked cherries- they are personified almost to be young, plump, juicy, virginal and ripe.
