Christina Rossetti — a remark

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“If dear Lucy and you are as happy as I would (if I could) make you, earth will be the foretaste and stepping-stone to heaven.”

She imagines human happiness as preparation for a greater spiritual fulfilment · Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 10 July 1873

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Christina Rossetti

5 December 1830–29 December 1894

To read Christina Rossetti is to enter a world of exquisite tension, a realm where the sacred and the sensual wage a quiet but ferocious war. She is the poet of renunciation who wrote some of the most sensuous verse in the English language, the devout Anglo-Catholic who filled her pages with goblin fruits that drip…

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