Explores Rossetti's revisions of the poetics of sensibility. OTHER WORKS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT Apter, T. E., Fantasy Literature (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1982). Arnold, Matthew, The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, i, ed.
Because of the new appreciation for this highly accomplished work, and also because, through her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina is so closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites and their superb art and bohemian lives, there had ...
With logic, balance, and clarity, D'Amico seals her case that Rossetti's faith, her gender, and the times in which she lived should all be considered to appreciate her poetic voice."--BOOK JACKET.
For the precocious young poet, the work was only one of several projects of her teens. Growing up in London as the youngest child in a gifted and unusual family of artists and writers, Rossetti had early developed a poetic vocation.
Chronology of Rossetti's Life Year Age 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 Life Marriage of Gabriele Rossetti and Frances Polidori ( FLR ) Birth of Maria Francesca Rossetti ( MFR ) Birth of Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti ( DGR ) Birth of William ...
Traces the life of the English poet, describes her difficult childhood, and looks at some of her poems
Since Arthur Symons’s declaration in 1895 in the Saturday Review that Christina Rossetti was “among the great poets of the nineteenth century,” Rossetti’s image among critics has undergone permutations as divergent as Victorian ...
'Jan Marsh's book is the best researched and fullest biography of Rossetti we have yet had.
The first art book to explore Rossetti's art and poetry together, including her own artworks, illustrations to her writing, and art inspired by her Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) is among the greatest of English Victorian poets.
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti was considered the ideal female poet of her time.
The book also explores Rossetti's innovative poetry for children, her daring reconfiguration of religion and poetry in a late-life commentary on the Apocalypse, and the influences both of female precursors she admired and outgrew and of the ...
Emma Mason offers a compelling study of Christina Rossetti, arguing that her poetry, diaries, letters, and devotional commentaries are engaged with both contemporary theological debate and an emergent ecological agenda.
Christina Rossetti: A Reference Guide
Christina Rossetti
For the precocious young poet, the work was only one of several projects of her teens. Growing up in London as the youngest child in a gifted and unusual family of artists and writers, Rossetti had early developed a poetic vocation.
Christina Rossetti (1830-94) was born into a predominantly Italian family in London.
Christina Rossetti
Collects fifty-three poems and excerpts from longer works in verse by the English poet, selected from throughout her literary life, with a biographical introduction and a chronology.
Christina G. Rossetti to Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti, Summer 1887, in Anthony H. Harrison, ed., The Letters of Christina Rossetti: Volume 1 1843–1873; Volume II 1874–1881; Volume III 1882–1886; Volume IV 1887–1894 (Charlottesville and ...