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Source: The Golden Book of Poetry (1947)
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Poet Christina Rossetti 1830–1894
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Subjects Trees & Flowers, Nature, Summer, Spring
Poetic Terms Couplet
Biography
Of all Victorian women poets, posterity has been kindest to Christina Rossetti. Her poetry has never disappeared from view, and her reputation, though it suffered a decline in the first half of the twentieth century, has always been preserved to some degree. Critical interest in Rossetti’s poetry swelled in the final decades of the twentieth century, a resurgence largely impelled by the emergence of feminist criticism; much of . . .
Poems by Christina Rossetti
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SUBJECT Trees & Flowers, Nature, Summer, Spring
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Poetic Terms Couplet
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