Christina Rossetti  Victorian

Info

- England's greatest woman poet

- debating Christian orthodoxy was "as useless as arguing about the air we breathe" (Horton 644)

- naive charm and careful workmanship stressed by pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (644)

- theme - painful submission to God's will

- undercurrent of positive faith

Works

- Goblin Market and Other Poems

- "In the Bleak Mid-Winter"

- "Long Barren"

- "Uphill"

Citation

Horton, Ronald A. British Literature for Christian Schools. Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1992.