PROBABLY the first impression one gets from reading the Complete Poetical Works of Christina Rossetti, now collected and edited by her brother, Mr. W. M. Rossetti, is that she wrote altogether too ...

Christina Rossetti's "Spring," "Restive," and "Acme" deserve greater recognition as effective poems lyrically dramatizing three distinct phases of the poet's theme of disillusionment and loss. In ...

A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A fool to pluck my rose too soon, A fool to snap my lily. My garden-plot I have not kept; Faded and ...

This sympathetic biography of the English Victorian poet Christina Rossetti by British writer Jan Marsh succeeds in portraying a poet of deep faith and lyric mastery whose work is comparable to ...

Christina Rossetti (1830-1895) is generally recognized as one of the major lyric poets of 19th Century England, but biographically she has been given short shrift. Though numerous attempts have been ...

Telegraph.co.uk's week-long series celebrating the great poets of the English canon. Today, Sam Leith pays tribute to Christina Rossetti Anyone who has stood with their breath misting in an icy church ...

Christina Rossetti’s words will be on the lips of millions this Christmas though perhaps few will realise it. But she wasn’t just a great poet; she was also the author of many bestselling works of ...

ONE of the saintliest of women, as well as one of our finest poets, passed into that rest for which she craved so long while, when Christina Rossetti died. Her life was a song of praise. This song had ...

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) is still beloved today for her timeless poetry—but her creative influence transcends the written word.