Four talks on the impact of painting on English poetry in the mid-nineteenth century 1: Types and Emblems by IAN FLETCHER
Mr. Fletcher argues that the Pre-Raphaelite concentration on typelogy takes its origin from the revival of emblem books by the Oxford Tractarian Movement and that Rossetti, for example, ' modulates Christianity in a persona] way just as if it were a myth '
Rossetti, by Edward Lucie -Smith: May 23