Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel, With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,Īnd an old white horse galloped away in the meadow. Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation That this was all folly.Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley, With the voices singing in our ears, saying The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,Īnd running away, and wanting their liquor and women,Īnd the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,Īnd the cities hostile and the towns unfriendlyĪnd the villages dirty and charging high prices:Īt the end we preferred to travel all night, The Family Letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti (C.And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory, Selected Prose of Christina Rossetti (Macmillan, 1998) Ellis, 1870)Ĭalled to be Saints: The Minor Festivals (The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1881) Dutton & Company, 1979)Ĭomplete Poems of Christina Rossetti: A Variorum Edition (LSU Press, 1990)Ĭommonplace and Other Short Stories (F. (Macmillan and Co., 1904)Ĭomplete Poems (E.P. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti. The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on The Apocalypse (Macmillan and Co., 1892) Sing-Song: A Nursery-Rhyme Book (George Routledge & Sons, 1872)Ī Pageant and Other Poems (Macmillan, 1881) Prince’s Progress and Other Poems (Macmillan and Co., 1866) Goblin Market, and Other Poems (Macmillan and Co., 1862) William Michael, edited her collected works in 1904, but her three-volume Complete Poems were published by Louisiana State University Press between 19. In 1891, Rossetti developed cancer, of which she died in London on December 29, 1894. Young & Co., 1881) and The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and E. Rossetti also wrote religious prose works, such as Seek and Find: A Double Series of Short Studies of the Benedicite (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Pott, Young, & Co., 1879) Called To Be Saints (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and E. While the illness restricted her social life, she continued to write poems, compiled in later works such as A Pageant and Other Poems (Macmillan, 1881). The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems (Macmillan and Co.), appeared in 1866 followed by Sing-Song (George Routledge and Sons), a collection of verse for children, in 1872 (with illustrations by Arthur Hughes).īy the 1880s, recurrent bouts of Graves’ disease ended Rossetti’s attempts to work as a governess. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry. Rossetti’s best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems (Macmillan and Co.), was published in 1862. Rossetti is best known for her ballads and her mystic, religious lyrics and her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feeling. In 1850, under the pseudonym Ellen Alleyne, she contributed seven poems to the Pre-Raphaelite journal The Germ, which had been founded by her brother, William Michael, and his friends. Rossetti’s first poems were written in 1842 and printed in her grandfather’s private press. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti also became a poet and a painter. Christina Georgina Rossetti was born on December 5, 1830, in London, one of four children of Italian parents.
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