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The grave long remained a place of pilgrimage with ‘one lady fainting‘...

Suffering from the effects of long-term chloral abuse and the onset of an illness which left his left side and hand paralysed, the poet and artist came to Birchington in February 1882 to convalesce in a newly built seaside bungalow lent by a friend...

None the less, such recurrent bouts of illness, occurring near the end of his life, continued to affect Rossetti’s confidence in his artistic ability, and he turned more towards the kind of poetry he had produced in his Poems (1870), often expressing his symbolic writing in ballad form, as in 'Ballads and Sonnets' (1881)...