A Birthday
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Poet Christina Rossetti 1830–1894
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Subjects Relationships, Birth & Birthdays, Living, Love, Romantic Love, Classic Love, Desire, Infatuation & Crushes
Occasions Weddings, Birthdays, Anniversary, Toasts & Celebrations
Holidays Valentine's Day
Poetic Terms Imagery, Simile, Rhymed Stanza
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 Relationships, Birth & Birthdays, Living, Love, Romantic Love, Classic Love, Desire, Infatuation & Crushes
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Poetic Terms Imagery, Simile, Rhymed Stanza
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