"It is anyway pointless to try to suppress myth on the grounds of factual error." Allows that myth serves a purpose of its own. A sort of Serenity Prayer for scholars of people like the Pre-Raphs and Byron. "[M]yths...say more about the society that recyels them than about the figures that inhabit them."

A feminist reading that manages not to be a diatribe. (Some recent writers about B's women could have benefited from a study of this.) Helps tremendously that Marsh is a Rossetti biographer, knows him well, and doesn't just see him simplistically through the limited lens of his muses. ( )