Christina (Georgina) Rossetti Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 39 pages of information about the life of Christina (Georgina) Rossetti.

Christina (Georgina) Rossetti Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 39 pages of information about the life of Christina (Georgina) Rossetti.
This section contains 11,691 words
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Christina (Georgina) Rossetti

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 this commentary focuses on gender issues in her poetry and on Rossetti as a woman poet. In Rossetti's lifetime opinion was divided over whether she or Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the greatest female poet of the era; in any case, after Browning's death in 1861 readers and critics saw Rossetti as the older poet's rightful successor. The two poets achieved different kinds of excellence, as is evident in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's comment on his sister, quoted by William Sharp in The...

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