“A great slice of my heart travels about with him now, he being the only one of his own standing left to me.”
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…