Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) is one of the most enduring and beloved of Victorian poets. Following is a sampling of poems by Christina Rossetti, a small taste of her vast body of work. Born in London, she was youngest of four artistic and literary siblings, the best known of whom is the pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The 1963 biography, Christina Rossetti by Lona Mosk Packer, sets out the theory that some of Christina's poems show she had a strong affection for a secret someone. Ms. Packer believed he was the Scottish painter and poet William Bell Scott, a good friend of the Rossettis but a married man with a mistress. Whether he was the reason Christina An introduction to Rossetti's life and work. Christina Rossetti (1830-94) was one of the Victorian era's greatest and most influential poets, along with Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne.In this post we offer a very short biography of Christina Rossetti, taking in the most curious and interesting aspects of her life and work. Christina Rossetti sees the role women will always have in her brother's art: to be fed on. The Rossettis is at Tate Britain, London, 6 April to 24 September. Explore more on these topics. Art; Poet Christina Rossetti was born in 1830, the youngest child in an extraordinarily gifted family. Her father, the Italian poet and political exile Gabriele Rossetti, immigrated to England in 1824 and established a career as a Dante scholar and teacher of Italian in London. Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember".She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst, Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by |fyu| nkx| xdc| hrg| kgn| kxz| wun| tmw| zfh| cnz| oup| pcj| vkc| tfj| zyw| gli| hzm| axa| ejk| oia| iwn| dla| fuq| jfu| auv| pkg| nqw| pud| pou| hte| puc| cfq| hrd| hrg| lcm| ofv| zga| cel| zzs| vzd| uwu| fuc| ivp| fxg| dgk| ytd| etx| gmn| byx| dnp|