Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Collected Poetry and Prose, ed. Jerome McGann

Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Collected Poetry and Prose, ed. Jerome McGann (New Haven, 2003,p.354)

he who did the job
Was standing among those who stood with us,
To look upon the corpse. You fancy him-
Smoking an early pipe, and watching, as
An artist, the effect of his last work.

(Evil is in the Eye of the Beholder? - Hegel)