The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Lowry in 1976. However Rossetti increasingly preferred symbolic and mythological images to realistic ones
For many years Rossetti worked on English translations of Italian poetry including Dante Alighieri's La Vita Nuova (publiDante Gabriel Rossettid as The Early Italian Poets in 1861). Rossetti abruptly left Kelmscott in July 1874 and never returned.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882; English pronunciation: /ˈdænti ˈɡeɪbriəl rəˈzɛti/) was an English poet illustrator painter and translator. His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling especially in his sonnet sequence The House of Life. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats.