ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about the Sebastian Evans, who was two years younger than Rossetti, and outlived Swinburne by two years, was never of Rossetti's circle, but in later life was intimate with Burne-jones, and in his passion for the medieval and in the ease with which he turned from poetry to applied art had a good deal in common with William Morris. Member of a family which in three generations showed exceptional versatility, he was perhaps predestined to dissipate his energy in too many directions, yet there seems to be some personal capriciousness in his repeated transfer of devotion from painting, wood-carving, and designing for a glass factory to journalism, political agitation, legal work; poetry and antiquarian research seldom getting more than his spare hours. No doubt his version of the old French romance of Perceval, The High History of the Holy Graal, and his study of the legend.
