![]() Her disease was diagnosed asĪngina pectoris. The age of fifteen, she became an invalid. ( Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet by Germaine Greer, 1995, pp. Sexuality and feelings of guilt may have resulted from her longing forĬloseness with her brother Gabriel. Germaine Greer has suggested that Rossetti's frustrated Some of the symptoms of Rossetti's disorder were perhaps Has argued that "Rossetti was a complex woman who certainly had more than one secret." ( Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender and Time by Diane D'Amico, 1999, p. 260) True or not, this kind of speculativeĬlaims became highly popular in biographies in the 1990s. ![]() Knowledge from conscious memory." ( Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography by Jan Marsh, 1994, p. Her father, but "perhaps like many abuse victims she banished the Jan Marsh has proposed in her biography on her that Christina's secret was that she was sexually abused by Interest in poetry and was portrayed in the paintings and drawings ofĬhristina was the model for his brother's oil painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849), which was the first picture to be signed P.R.B. Christina wasĮducated at home by her mother, Frances Polidori, a former governess,Īn Anglican of devout evangelical bent. Writers, Dante Gabriel also gained fame as a painter. All the four children in the family became Professor of Italian at King's College from 1831. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), Will the day's journey take the whole long day?Ĭhristina Rossetti was born in London, one of four children of Her favorite themes were unhappy love, death,Īnd premature resignation. After a serious illness in 1874, she rarely received visitors or 'A Birthday,' 'When IĪm Dead,' and 'Up-Hill' are probably Rossetti's best-known single Poets, who was the sister of the painter-poet Dante GabrielĪnd a member of the Pre-Raphaelite art movement. One of the most important of English woman He edited Romanticism and Celebrity Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and a volume of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (Pickering and Chatto, 2006).A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĬhristina (Georgina) Rossetti (1830-1894) - Pseydonym Ellen Alleyne His monograph, Byron's Romantic Celebrity (Palgrave, 2007), argues that our modern celebrity culture began in the Romantic period, and that Lord Byron should be understood as one of its earliest examples and most astute critics. Mole's interests include literature of the Romantic period in Britain, especially Lord Byron. ![]() He has previously held appointments at the University of Glasgow, the University of Bristol and, most recently, as Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he was Principal Investigator of the Interacting with Print Research Group. Tom Mole is Reader in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book. A detailed commentary is provided for each of the poems, including comments on historical context, language and style, rhyme and repetition, relationships with other texts – especially the Bible – and much more. In this course, Professor Tom Mole (University of Edinburgh) explores the poetry of Christina Rossetti, focusing in particular on the fourteen poems listed for study for OCR English Literature A Level (excluding ‘Goblin Market’). In this module, we read through Christina Rossetti’s ‘Song’ (‘When I am dead, my dearest’), focusing in particular on: (i) the poem’s fixation on what doesn’t (or shouldn’t) happen, as opposed to what does/should (ii) the poem’s rhyme scheme, and the impact of rhymes that appear in addition to this scheme (iii) the concept of death as a respite from the trials and tribulations of life (iv) the cultural and literary heritage of the nightingale and (v) the importance of Rossetti’s religious beliefs, particularly in relation to the concept of ‘soul sleep’.
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