 Janey 's relationship with Rossetti had continued through a correspondence and occasional visits , although she found him extremely paranoid and was upset by his addiction to chloral . She last saw him in 1881 , and he died in April the following year . Morris described his mixed feelings toward his deceased friend by stating that he had " some of the very greatest qualities of genius , most of them indeed ; what a great man he would have been but for the arrogant misanthropy which marred his work , and killed him before his time " . In August 1883 , Janey would be introduced to the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , with whom she embarked on a second affair , which Morris might have been aware of . 
