“I am feeling at 60 very much as I did at 59, though not quite as…” — Christina Rossetti

“I am feeling at 60 very much as I did at 59, though not quite as relieved and exhilarated by the circumstance as when at 30 I gazed in the looking-glass, and discerned no marked change from 29.”

Ageing is treated with humour, perspective and a refusal of melodrama · Letter to William Michael Rossetti, 6 December 1890

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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