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The best analogues to Yeats’ early poems, the
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"I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic
dream of something that never was, never will be - in a better light than
any light that ever shone - in a land that no-one can define or remember,
only desire - and the forms divinely beautiful" - Edward Coley
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Fanny Cornforth, moved to London from the
country and made her living as a prostitute. She took a fancy to Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, and was reputed to have first got his attention by
pelting him with peanuts in the Cremhorne Gardens. Larger and louder than
life she enjoyed the company of Bohemians, indulging the young artists in
return for gifts and favours. With their help she set up a boarding
house-cum-brothel and made a good living. She remained Rossetti's companion
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