“Literary Guide” - “The Pre-Raphaelites: a mosaic of genres.” We are talking about a direction in English poetry and painting that formed in the early 1850s and was united by the pathos of resistance to the conventions of the Victorian era, academic traditions and blind imitation of classical models. Here is what the poet and translator Marina Boroditskaya writes in the introduction to the publication: On the pages of the magazine Only a few names are represented - and almost all the “verbal” genres in which the many-faced “Pre-Raphaelite brothers” tried themselves. Memoirs, criticism, polemics, essays, poetry and prose...