Christina Georgina Rossetti remains one of the most important poets in the British tradition, both for her own work and those she influenced, most notably Virginia Wolfe. Rossetti is praised for her willingness to explore different genres and poetic forms within her body of work. Thematically, her poems run the gamut from frustrated love, to religion, to the Gothic, and beyond. Her choice of form is equally eclectic. Here, a reading of some of her best work by David Shaw-Parker and Ghizela Rowe.
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"Goblin Market is of course one of the great 19th Century poems. Creepy, gothic, sensual, marvelous." — Charles (4 out of 5 stars)
"Goblin Market is of course one of the great 19th Century poems. Creepy, gothic, sensual, marvelous."
" I really do love her "
" Read for "Introduction to Literary Studies," gateway for the English major, SP08. Sara Maurer. "
" I love her poetry. I know not everyone does, but I do. "
" A fine collection of Christina Rossetti's complete works of poetry. "
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" Honest, heartbreaking, lovely. Truly beautiful poetry. "
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) was one of the most important English women poets, in both range and quality. She was the youngest in an extraordinarily gifted family: her eldest brother Dante Gabriel founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and was a foremost poet and painter of the era; her other brother William became a prolific art and literary critic, editor, and memoirist; and her sister Maria went on to be a Dante scholar, respected Italian translator, author, and nun.
Rossetti wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children’s poetry throughout her life and is most famous for her poem Goblin Market. Religious devotion came to play a major role in her life and much of her work is spiritual in nature. She never married.
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