

When failing healt Christina Georgina Rossetti, sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, wrote lyrical religious works and ballads, such as " Up-hill" (1861).įrances Polidori Rossetti bore this most important women poet writing in nineteenth-century England to Gabriele Rossetti. In 1848, James Collinson, one of the minor pre-Raphaelite brethren, engaged her but reverted to Roman Catholicism and afterward ended the engagement. Dante made seemingly quite attractive if not beautiful but somewhat idealized sketches of Christina as a teenager. Despite her fundamentally religious temperament, closer to that of her mother, this youngest member of a remarkable family of poets, artists, and critics inherited many of her artistic tendencies from her father. Frances Polidori Rossetti bore this most important women poet writing in nineteenth-century England to Gabriele Rossetti.

Rossetti is honoured with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Anglican Church on 27 April.Christina Georgina Rossetti, sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, wrote lyrical religious works and ballads, such as " Up-hill" (1861). Her poem Love Came Down at Christmas (1885) has also been widely arranged as a carol.

Rossetti's Christmas poem In the Bleak Midwinter became widely known after her death when set as a Christmas carol first by Gustav Holst, and then by Harold Darke. Scholars began to explore Freudian themes in her work, such as religious and sexual repression, reaching for personal, biographical interpretations of her poetry. In the early 20th century Rossetti's popularity faded in the wake of Modernism. She published her first two poems (Death's Chill Between and Heart's Chill Between), which appeared in the Athenaeum, in 1848 when she was 18.Īlthough Rossetti's popularity during her lifetime did not approach that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, her standing remained strong after her death. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry. Rossetti’s best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862. Her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feeling. Rossetti is best known for her ballads and her mystic religious lyrics. She wrote the poems Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter. About Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti, born in London, was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems.
