Wood, Esther; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel [Ill.]: Dante Rossetti and the pre-Raphaelite movement (London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1894)

CHAPTER VII.
TREATMENT OF MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN
ROMANCE.
The Christian Element in Neo-Hellenism and Romance-
“ How They Met Themselves ” and “ Michael Scott’s
Wooing”—Medievalism and Romantic Love—“Romeo
and Juliet” and “Ophelia”—Millais’s Romantic Land-
scapes—“The Woodman’s Daughter,” “The Blind Girl,”
“The Vale of Rest,” “Autumn Leaves”—Keats’s “Isa-
bella ’’—Tennyson’s “ Mariana ” and “ Idylls of the
King ” — The Idea of Retribution ■—■ “ King Arthur’s
Tomb,” “ Paolo and Francesca,” “ Death of Lady
Macbeth,” “ The Awakening Conscience,” “ Hesterna
Rosa,” “The Gate of Memory,” “Found,” “Psyche,”
“Proserpine,” “Pandora”—The Idea of Duty—“The
Hugenot,” “The Black Brunswicker,” “Claudio and
Isabella’’—Old and New Chivalry—“Sir Isumbras” and
“The Rescue”—“The Merciful Knight”—“St. Agnes’
Eve ”■—Ideal and Platonic Love—“ The Salutation of
Beatrice,” “The Boat of Love,” “ Beata Beatrix,” “ Dante’s
Dream,” “ Our Lady of Pity.”
IT is but an arbitrary classification that divides
the so-called “ religious ” art of the Pre-
Raphaelites from their portrayals of that