ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

VICTORIAN AGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was the leader of Pre-Raphaelite group of artists in England?
A
D.G Rossetti
B
Swinburne
C
Christina Rossetti
D
Morris
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed in 1848 by three Royal Academy students: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who was a gifted poet as well as a painter, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais, all under 25 years of age.

Detailed explanation-2: -In this point, Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) could be called a Pre-Raphaelite poet, for her early poems were subject to the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites. Her Goblin Market (1862) is said to be the most Pre-Raphaelite of her works in its various’pictorial’details.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in London. His works include Sir Hugh the Heron: A Legendary Tale in Four Parts (1843), Poems (1869), which was published in several editions with slightly different content, Ballads and Sonnets (1882), Ballads and Narrative Poems, and Sonnets and Lyrical Poems (1894).

Detailed explanation-4: -"Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82), the third founding member of the Pre-Raphaelites, became the recognized leader and even formed a second grouping of the brotherhood in 1857, after Millais and Hunt had gone their separate ways.

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