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  Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti was born in London, one of four children of Italian parents.
Christina was educated at home by her mother, Frances Polidori, a former governess, an Anglican of devout evangelical bent.
Rossetti's first verses were written in 1842 and printed in the private press of her grandfather.
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  Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti was born in London, one of four children of Italian parents.
Rossetti's first poems were written in 1842 and printed in the private press of her grandfather.
Christina Rossetti is increasingly being reconsidered a major Victorian poet.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/716   (353 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti Biography and Summary
Christina Rossetti was born on Dec. 5, 1830, in London, the youngest of the four remarkable Rossetti...
Rossetti is closely associated with Pre-Raphaelitism—an artistic and literary movement that aspired to recapture the vivid pictorial qualities and sensual aesthetics of Italian religious paintings before 1500—but was equally influenced by t...
Christina Georgina Rossetti(December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as William Michael Rossetti and Maria Francesca Rossetti.
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 English Online Free Tour - Free Resources - Literature - Classic Poets - Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti was the youngest of four children of Gabriele Rossetti, an Italian patriot who came to London in 1824.
Although some of Christina Rossetti's earliest verse was published in The Germ, a magazine produced for a short time by the Pre-Raphaelites, and she sat as a model for several of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's paintings, she was not a member of the movement.
This may not be a connection that Rossetti intended, but the description of Laura yielding to temptation and her subsequent illness would have been familiar to such families as the Brontës, whose brother Branwell died of an addiction to drink and drugs, and to Coleridge, who suffered from a lifelong addiction to opium.
www.englishonline.co.uk /freesite_tour/resource/literature/rossetti.html   (1037 words)

  
 LitWeb.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Christina was educated at home by her mother, Frances Polidori, a former governess.
Christina was the model for her brother's picture The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849), the first picture to be signed P.R.B. Rossetti's first verses were written in 1842 and printed by her grandfather's private press.
by D.A. Kent (1989); Christina Rossetti and the Poetry of Discovery by Katherine J. Mayberry (1989); Christina Rossetti by Sharon Smulders (1996); The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts, ed.
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 Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins
Christina Rossetti, on the other hand, through her Verses privately printed in 1847 and her Goblin Market published by the Macmillan's in 1862, was already known to the literary world as a "poetess".
Christina Rosset's "Convent Threshold" is a kind of love letter, addressed by a woman aspiring for an existence transcending this sinful world to her former earthbound lover.
I think it reasonable to suppose that Hopkins round about the year in 1864 was in a position to understand sympathetically Christina Rossetti's renunciatory attitudes towards worldly pleasures including love affairs, as "vanity of all vanities", and her concomitant longings for peace and quiet in the world beyond.
www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org /lectures_2001/christina_rossetti.html   (2840 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as William Michael Rossetti and Maria Francesca Rossetti.
Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was an Italian poet and a political asylum seeker from Naples, and their mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori.
Rossetti was born in London and educated at home by her mother.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christina_Rossetti   (580 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet, born in London, one of four children of Italian parents, Gabriel Rossetti the exiled Italian patriot, poet, scholar, and revolutionary and Frances Polidori Rossetti.
Christina's first poems were written in 1842 and printed in the private press of her grandfather.
Christina wrote mainly religious poetry, her best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862.
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 Christina Rossetti
Rossetti's creative process and the process and symbols of her characters' individuations are what I would like now to concentrate on.
Given the known facts of Christina Rossetti's life, one is tempted to class her as an artist who sacrificed "happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being." We know that twice she gave up marriage for religious reasons.
William Rossetti has attested to the fact that Plato was among Christina's favorite authors: "she read his Dialogues over and over again" (PW lxx); yet the idea that she would consciously depict lesbian love as a means to wholeness and redemption is of course out of the question.
www.csulb.edu /~csnider/c.rossetti.html   (6850 words)

  
 Christina Georgina Rossetti
CHRISTINA Georgina Rossetti, that daughter of the Tractarian Movement who, as a devotional poet, 'has not her equal in the English language,' says Sir Edmund Gosse in his History of English Literature, was born on December 5, 1830, at 38, Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, the youngest of a family of four gifted children.
One of Christina's spiritual advisers was, it is interesting to recall, Dr. Littledale, whose keen sense of humour and cheerful outlook on life must have exercised a wholesome influence on Christina, prone at times as she was, owing to a low physical vitality, to take a somewhat morbid outlook on life.
Rossetti in her sorrowful anxiety for her elder son, the tragedy of whose story--unnecessary to dwell upon here--is intensified by the thought of his splendid gifts: a mystic without a creed, 'a Catholic without the discipline or consolation of the Church,' thus we may describe Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
anglicanhistory.org /bios/cgrossetti.html   (3197 words)

  
 the biography of Christina Georgina Rossetti - life story
Christina was the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and like him she showed promise as a poet while still very young.
Rossetti's health was always poor, and illness had rendered her an invalid by the time she was fifty.
Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the greatest female poet in English up to her own time.
www.poemhunter.com /christina-georgina-rossetti/biography/poet-3096   (358 words)

  
 Dr. Karen Droisen, ENG 435: Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were born in London.
Rossetti spent the last 15 years of her life as a semi-recluse, dedicating herself to writing, study, and spiritual contemplation.
Since Christina Rossetti never married, critics have tended to read her work autobiographically, identifying her dedication to study and contemplation as a source of sexual frustration that finds expression in her poetry as a fear of bodily pleasure.
www.unlv.edu /faculty/droisen/rossettis.htm   (1689 words)

  
 Poetry: Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was born in London, the daughter of an Italian revolutionary intellectual and poet whose activities forced him to flee to London in 1824.
Her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti was one of the leaders of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in English art and writing, an attempt to return to the artistic style of pre-Renaissance Italy.
Christina Rossetti was a devout Anglican and refused two opportunities to marry because of religious differences with her suitors.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litLinks/poetry/rossetti.htm   (272 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Christina Rossetti: Passion & Devastation: Livres en anglais: K. E. Sullivan,Christina Georgina Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Reclusive, melancholy poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) waged "a lifelong struggle with feminist desires" and attempted to reconcile ambition and autonomy with the Victorian ideal of womanhood, in Marsh's analysis.
Rossetti, who believed herself descended from Petrarch's Laura (a claim with little if any foundation), campaigned against cruelty to animals, and her volunteer work with prostitutes at Highgate penitentiary inspired her allegorical poem Goblin Market.
Marsh (The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood) illuminates Rossetti's sibling rivalry with her flamboyant brother, painter-poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and shows how the despair and paranoia of their invalid father, Gabriele, an embittered Italian exile-poet-librettist-professor, helped trigger Christina's adolescent breakdown, which left her with a lifelong tendency to guilt and self-castigation.
www.amazon.fr /Christina-Rossetti-Devastation-K-Sullivan/dp/1860193870   (490 words)

  
 The Life of Christina Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Christina Georgina Rossetti, one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England, was born in London December 5, 1830, to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti.
When Professor Rossetti's failing health and eyesight forced him into retirement in 1853, Christina and her mother attempted to support the family by starting a day school, but had to give it up after a year or so.
All three Rossetti women, at first devout members of the evangelical branch of the Church of England, were drawn toward the Tractarians in the 1840s.
www.victorianweb.org /authors/crossetti/rossettibio.html   (378 words)

  
 Christina Georgina Rossetti Collection | Special Collections | Bryn Mawr College Library
Born on December 5, 1830, the English poet Christina Rossetti was the youngest child of Gabriele Rossetti and sister to both Dante Gabriel Rossetti, well known poet, painter and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and William Michael Rossetti, English art critic, literary editor, and man of letters.
Christina was a devout Christian, sustained throughout her life by her religious faith, especially during the difficult times following her father's death in 1854 and the onset of a prolonged illness in 1871.
In 1871, Christina was stricken with the thyroid disorder Graves' disease, marring her appearance, leaving her an invalid, and causing her to live the last fifteen years of her life as a recluse in her home.
www.brynmawr.edu /library/speccoll/guides/rossetti.shtml   (1131 words)

  
 Pre-Raphaelite Women: Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti Biography--with a drawing of Christina and mother by D.G. Rossetti.
Christina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood--excellent introduction by Rossetti biographer Jan Marsh.
Maidens of Death--the "mortuary poetry" of Christina Rosetti, Emily Dickinson, and Elizabeth Siddal.
faculty.pittstate.edu /~knichols/chris.html   (955 words)

  
 The Introduction to Almost Paradise
Many of Rossetti’s unpublished poems match the quality of her published poems and their dates often coincide with the more famous published ones but it is not possible to see them side by side in the Penguin Classics edition because they are at different ends of the book.
If Rossetti’s longer poems and sonnet sequences were markedly superior to, or more important than, her shorter poems and lyrics, then use of such categories might serve some critical purpose beyond mere standard practice, but this is certainly not the case.
Christina Rossetti is not only the greatest English woman poet of the 19th century, she is also one of the greatest lyric poets in the whole canon of English verse.
christinarossetti.co.uk /introduction_to_almost_paradise.htm   (4925 words)

  
 The Foreword
When I wrote my biography of Rossetti, I set myself the question ‘Who was the real Christina Rossetti?’ and had to admit that at the end, the question still remained essentially unanswered.
Moreover, there is a degree of repetition, especially in some of the religious poems, which she wrote in large numbers, partly out of a sense of duty to her Church.
This volume should serve to make Christina Rossetti’s poetry accessible to a new generation of readers, while those who are already lovers of her work will find many different facets of it, and perhaps some surprises, in this volume.
christinarossetti.co.uk /the_foreward.htm   (998 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Christina Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Symons’ remarks are indicative of the contribution Rossetti made to the literature of her era and of ways in which Rossetti’s gender shaped critical reactions to her work.
Rossetti’s earliest surviving poem dates from April 1842 and was written as a birthday present to her mother.
Rossetti was educated by her mother, a former governess and a teacher.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3852   (598 words)

  
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti and the critic William Michael Rossetti and a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt.
Rossetti became increasingly depressed, and buried the bulk of his unpublished poems in her grave at Highgate Cemetery.
Rossetti described the sonnet form as a "moment's monument", implying that it sought to contain the feelings of a fleeting moment, and to reflect upon their meaning.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti   (1045 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti
English poet, was the youngest of the four children of Gabriele Rossetti.
In 1853-54 Christina Rossetti for nearly a year helped her mother to keep a day-school at Frome-Selwood, in Somerset.
In the purity and solidity of her finest lyrics, the glow and music in which she robes her moods of melancholy reverie, her extraordinary mixture of austerity with sweetness and of sanctity of tone with sensuousness of color, Christina Rossetti, in her best pieces, may challenge comparison with the most admirable of our poets.
www.nndb.com /people/825/000086567   (707 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti — Poet Seers
Christina Georgina Rossetti, one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England, was born in London December 5, 1830, to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti.
When Professor Rossetti's failing health and eyesight forced him into retirement in 1853, Christina and her mother attempted to support the family by starting a day school, but had to give it up after a year or so.
All three Rossetti women, at first devout members of the evangelical branch of the Church of England, were drawn toward the Tractarians in the 1840s.
www.poetseers.org /the_great_poets/british_poets/rossetti   (405 words)

  
 A little about Christina Rossetti
Victorian poet Christina Rossetti (1830-94), born into a highly literary and artistic family, was the sister of painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82).
She never married but came close twice and these experiences, together with her strong faith, frequently tested, and her battles with ill health, informed and fed her creative powers.
‘Your instinct [Christina] was so sure, so direct, so intense that it produced poems that sing like music in one’s ears - like a melody by Mozart or an air by Gluck … A firm hand pruned your lines; a sharp ear tested their music.
christinarossetti.co.uk /a_little_about_christina_rossetti.htm   (336 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 in London.
She was published in the Germ, the Pre-Raphaelite journal, and sat for a number of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelites, including some by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Christina Rossetti's poems may seem dated now, but the subject matter is still relevant.
www.walrus.com /~gibralto/acorn/germ/CRossetti.html   (312 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti, Women, and Patience   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Christina Rossetti was both a devout Christian and an admired poet who was also a woman.
Christina Rossetti is traditional -- she disassociated herself from the suffrage movement and thought women's rights and Christianity were at odds.
According to Rossetti's unpublished notes on Genesis and Exodus, the penalty of death has been laid on men and of life on women, and, for her, continuance exacts as great a penalty as extinction.
www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/victorian/authors/crossetti/rossetti1.html   (446 words)

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