Christina Rossetti, selected poems Contents
- A Better Resurrection
- A Birthday
- A Royal Princess
- At Home
- Cousin Kate
- Despised and Rejected
- Goblin Market
- Good Friday
- Jessie Cameron
- Maude Clare
- Shut Out
- Song (When I am dead, my dearest)
- Summer is Ended
- The Convent Threshold
- The Lowest Place
- To Lalla, reading my verses topsy-turvy
- Winter: My Secret
Christina Rossetti, selected poems
The poetry of Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti was a prolific writer who authored a great number of poems, as well as journal contributions, short stories and devotional prose.
This text guide will enable you to explore her poetry, the life of the poet herself, as well as the society she lived in.
Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894) was an English poet. Born in London on December 5th 1830, she was the fourth child of Gabriele Rossetti, an Italian poet and political exile and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, the daughter of an Italian exile. She had two brothers, William Michael and Dante Gabriel and one sister, Maria. Read more . . .
Context of Christina Rossetti's poetryChristina Rossetti lived and wrote in the Victorian era. The world she lived in had a profound effect on her writings and provides a lense through which one can better understand the text. Read more . . .
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