“I hope some day to see the same and a wider field traversed by some…” — Christina Rossetti

“I hope some day to see the same and a wider field traversed by some friend of older standing and consequently of far warmer affection towards his hero; who, whatever he was or was not, was lovable.”

Her judgement of Gabriel ultimately returns from reputation to affection · Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 7 December 1882

Christina Rossetti

About 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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