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Christina Rossetti was the youngest of four children. Like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she suffered the tyranny of a loving family, being restrained by the "police surveillance" of her sister Maria and the goodness of their mother. Although she and her brother Dante Gabriel were known as the "two storms", she curbed her passionate nature, and a love of life was replaced in her work initially by the bitterness of the lonely and ultimately by the conviction of the religious. Comparing her situation with that of contemporaries Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson, this biography examines the effects of Victorian social and religious convention on the life and work of the "High Priestess of Pre-Raphaelitism". ... Read more

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THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great: Famous Women, by Elbert Hubbard. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766104044. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1900Original Publisher: Little, Brown, and companySubjects: Literary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / GeneralPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshNotes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Although the cultural and literary influence of Christina Rossetti has recently been widely acknowledged, the belatedness of this critical attention has left wide gaps in our understanding of her poetic contribution. Often focusing solely on her early work and neglecting her later volumes, many critics minimized her relevance by measuring her stature through either her early poems or her relationships with well-known Victorian literary figures. In Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style, Constance W. Hassett argues against this diminishment by reopening Rossetti's canon, challenging both critics and readers to trade their silent appreciation of her most familiar verse for a patient and active scrutiny of her body of work, which contains some of the finest lyric poetry of the nineteenth century.

Keeping her primary focus on the poems themselves, Hassett traces Rossetti's career through her five poetry collections, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866), Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872), A Pageant and Other Poems (1881), and Verses (1893). In a comprehensive account of Rossetti's evolving style and genre, Hassett analyzes the strengths and failures of the poetry, its attention to the resources of rhythm and the shifts of diction, its momentum and reserve, and the rationale for its revision. 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 male circle of Pre-Raphaelite poets.

For art historians of the Pre-Raphaelites, scholars of women's writing and gender studies, students of children's literature, and researchers in religious studies, not to mention readers in Victorian poetry, Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style will serve as an indispensable and eye-opening guide. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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More than a Poet: Rossetti and her Prose
With the recent scholarly and popular interest Christina Rossetti's poetry has inspired, P. G. Stanwood and David A. Kent's Selected Prose of Christina Rossetti could not have been published at a more opportune time.Stanwood and Kent point out that though Rossetti was a deeply religiouswoman and that bulk of her poetry was devotional and her prose religious,scholarship has, as of yet, paid little attention to any but her moresecular work.And though there have been a few recently publishedanthologies of Rossetti's work, these anthologies pay scant attention toher prose.Almost none of her prose has been published since the firsteditions of the nineteenth century, and these editions are extremelydifficult to find. Stanwood and Kent's book provides generous excerpts fromall of Rossetti's prose, both her short stories and her religious work. Theintroductions to each of the excerpts provide publication histories andsynopses of the whole works, and the endnotes and the lengthy generalintroduction provide a highly valuable background to Rossetti's life andwork.The recent attention to Rossetti's poetry, viz. "Goblin Market", hasdrawn attention to Rossetti's imaginative powers and to her literarygenius, but Selected Prose reveals a new dimension of Rossetti's mind andinterests--she was a woman of a sensitive and powerful intellect, and hergrasp and treatment of theological issues is astute and bold for a woman ofher time. Anyone seriously interested in Rossetti's work ought to read herprose. ... Read more

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Publisher: London : James BowdenPublication date: 1898Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1911 edition by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London. ... Read more

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A selection of work by three of the finest women poets of the nineteenth century; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1904Original Publisher: MacmillanSubjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / GeneralPoetry / American / GeneralPoetry / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: ONE CERTAINTYVanity of vanities, the Preacher saith, All things are vanity. The eye and ear Cannot be filled with what they see and hear. Like early dew, or like the sudden breathOf wind, or like the grass that withereth, Is man, tossed to and fro by hope and fear: So little joy hath he, so little cheer, Till all things end in the long dust of death.To-day is still the same as yesterday, To-morrow also even as one of them ; And there is nothing new under the sun : Until the ancient race of Time be run, The old thorns shall grow out of the old stem, And morning shall be cold and twilight grey.A TESTIMONYI Said of laughter : it is vain.Of mirth I said : what profits it ?Therefore I found a book, and writ Therein how ease and also pain, How health and sickness, every one Is vanity beneath the sun. Man walks in a vain shadow ; he Disquieteth himself in vain. The things that were shall be again; The rivers do not fill the sea,But turn back to their secret source ;The winds too turn upon their course.Our treasures moth and rust corrupt,Or thieves break through and steal, or they Make themselves wings and fly away.One man made merry as he supped,Nor guessed how when that night grew dimHis soul would be required of him.We build our houses on the sandComely withoutside and within ;But when the winds and rains begin To beat o... ... Read more