Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: ...that Lady Beauty in whose praise thy hand and voice shake still... Message-ID: <8704062333.AA04552@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 19:27:00 EST Article-I.D.: EDDIE.8704062333.AA04552 Posted: Mon Apr 6 19:27:00 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Apr-87 03:58:11 EST Sender: daemon@eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds Organization: Love-Hounds Anonymous Lines: 17 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu A note of refleKTion for all like-minded fans: Rossetti was also divided between his commitment on the one hand to introspection and self-discovery -- to painting his soul as it was -- and his belief on the other hand that the ideal of the self must not lie within the self. There must be an external ideal around which it can move in order and harmony. "Seek thine ideal anywhere except in thyself," he wrote in his notebook. "Once fix it there, and the ways of thy real self will matter nothing to thee, whose eyes can rest on an ideal already perfected". -- from Barbara Chalesworth, "Dark Passages: The Decadent Consciousness in Victorian Literature" -- Andrew