A dinner at Rossetti’s—Mr. W. B. Scott, Mr. Sidney Colvin,
Mr. Joseph Knight, Mr. William Rossetti, Dr. Hüffer, Dr.
Westland Marston and his son Philip, Mr. Madox Brown and Dr.
Appleton—Rossetti’s poetry, his life, the artistic colouring of
his mind—The nobility of his nature while in health, his change
of character through disease—His poetry and paintings are one;
both suffer by separation—The cause of his success as a poet—A
critical view of his “Blessed Damozel” 213