Who among the following in the article, "Fleshly School of Poetry", attacked the Pre-Raphaelites, especially D.G. Rossetti?

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UGC NET Paper 2: English 13 Oct 2022 Shift 1

Answer 1

The correct answer is "Robert Buchanan".

Key Points

‘The Fleshly School of Poetry’, is Robert Buchanan’s vicious attack on Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites.
He castigated the poetry of Rossetti for its “morbid deviation from the healthy forms of life.”
In Buchanan’s view, these poets exhibited “weary wasting, yet exquisite sensuality; nothing virile, nothing tender, nothing completely sane; a superfluity of extreme sensibility.”
Robert Williams Buchanan was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist.

Therefore, the answer is option 3.

Additional Information

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator.
He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.