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 | | | Christina Rossetti and her mother, photographed by Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) |
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| 12/5/1830 |
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Rossetti's "Aesthetics of Renunciation"
On this day in 1830 Christina Rossetti was born. Although she was only peripherally involved with her brother's Pre-Raphaelites, and claimed to be "content in my shady crevice," Rossetti was not quite the "recluse, saint and renunciatory spinster" commonly portrayed. To those familiar only with her devotional or children's verse, her classic "Goblin Market" will raise eyebrows. |
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Academy of American Poets
Offers a biography, poetry, bibliography, and links. Selected poems include "An Apple Gathering" and "Up-Hill."
"Rossetti is best known for her ballads and her mystic religious lyrics. Her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feeling. Rossetti's best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862. ... Christina Rossetti is increasingly being reconsidered a major Victorian poet. She has been compared to Emily Dickinson but the similarity is more in the choice of spiritual topics than in poetic approach, Rossetti's poetry being one of intense feelings, her technique refined within the forms established in her time." |  | The Rossetti Archive
"The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti," featuring poetry and prose, Rossetti's translations of Dante Alighieri and others, a biography, images and paintings, bibliography, and more. This website is maintained by the University of Virginia. | | The Victorian Web
Online collection of essays which outline the political and social context in which Rossetti wrote, major themes, characterizations, use of imagery and symbolism, concordances with other authors (including Dante Alighieri, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Emily Dickinson, and Virginia Woolf), and other literary criticism and analysis. | |
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