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Pre-facing simile vehicles in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sonnets
Style, Winter, 2005 by Ernest Fontana
(10) The shifting perception of a friend's face is the opening simile of Tennyson's In Memoriam (1850): "As sometimes in a dead man's face, / To those that watch it more and more / A likeness hardly seen before / Comes out...." See Fontana, "Tennyson's In Memoriam."
(11) The most elaborate of those non-as octet vehicles is to be found in "Inclusiveness" (#63), which I discuss at length in "Dante Gabriel Rossetti" (25758).
(12) With the exception of these three sonnets, all the sonnets treated in this article were written between 1871 and 1874. I am, therefore, less persuaded than Boos (33) of a major stylistic shift in Rossetti's sonnets.
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Ernest Fontana
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