Question

Who among the following poets is the exponent of the Pre- Raphaelite movement

• A. Hopkins
• B. D.H Lawrance
• C. Emily Dickinson
• D. Christina Rossetti

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Christina Rossetti

Pre-Raphaelite Movement in English Literature

• The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) was a group of English painters and poets founded in 1848.
• They rejected the conventions of the Royal Academy and sought to revive the qualities of art they admired in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, before the time of Raphael.
• Key aims included a return to detailed observation of nature, and a belief in the importance of truthfulness and sincerity in art and literature.
• Christina Rossetti was a significant poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, though she was never formally inducted into the Brotherhood.
• Her poetry often explored themes of faith, love, renunciation, and mortality, reflecting the movement's interest in medievalism and intense emotional expression.
• Other prominent figures in the movement included painters like Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Christina's brother), John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt, and poets like William Morris and Algernon Charles Swinburne.
• Christina Rossetti's notable works include 'Goblin Market and Other Poems' (1862), which is a prime example of her imaginative and symbolic style.
• The Pre-Raphaelite movement had a profound influence on subsequent developments in Victorian art and literature, emphasizing a move away from industrialization towards a more naturalistic and emotionally resonant aesthetic.