Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)

English writer and art critic. The brother of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, he wrote memoirs of them 1904 and 1895 respectively, and Some Reminiscences 1906. He made a translation in blank verse of Dante's Inferno 1865, and wrote Lives of Some Famous Poets 1878 and Life of Keats 1887.

He worked for the Inland Revenue, but devoted his leisure to art and literature. He was the editor of The Germ 1850, the official organ of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and wrote the sonnet printed on the cover.