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Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)

Autor(a) de Goblin Market

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Image credit: Portrait of Christina Rossetti, by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Public domain ; Wikipedia)

Obras de Christina Rossetti

Goblin Market (1862) 739 cópias
The Complete Poems (1979) 515 cópias
Rossetti: Poems (1993) 257 cópias
Poems and Prose (1994) 181 cópias
Sing-Song (1872) 171 cópias
Poems (Everyman Poetry) (1996) 81 cópias
Christina's Carol (2021) 64 cópias
Wombat (2018) 52 cópias
What Can I Give Him? (1985) — Autor — 51 cópias
Commonplace (1870) 47 cópias
Color: A Poem (1992) 44 cópias
Blooming Beneath the Sun (2019) 34 cópias
What Is Pink? (1963) 34 cópias
Verses (1895) 15 cópias
Maude (1976) 13 cópias
Doves and Pomegranates (1969) 9 cópias
Love Poems (1994) 9 cópias
Speaking likenesses (2006) 7 cópias
The Skylark (First Poems) (1991) 5 cópias
Florilegio (1997) 5 cópias
Cin Pazari ve Secme Siirler (2011) 4 cópias
Nostalgia del cielo (2001) 3 cópias
Adding: a poem (1964) 3 cópias
Who Has Seen the Wind? (2000) 3 cópias
Poems (1876) 2 cópias
Il cielo è lontano (1995) 2 cópias
Adding: A Poem 2 cópias
Liefdessonnetten (2004) 2 cópias
Mix a Pancake (2001) 2 cópias
Family of Strangers 1 exemplar(es)
Story Clouds 1 exemplar(es)
Hurt No Living Thing (1987) 1 exemplar(es)
Donne d'amore (2011) 1 exemplar(es)
El mercado de los duendes (2004) 1 exemplar(es)
How Many Seconds? 1 exemplar(es)
Illustrated Poets, The 1 exemplar(es)
Healing Poetry (2013) 1 exemplar(es)
Christmas Short Works Collection 2014 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Sing Song 1 exemplar(es)
Who Has Seen The Wind 1 exemplar(es)
Rossetti Poetry 1 exemplar(es)
Sonnets 1 exemplar(es)
The Poetry 1 exemplar(es)
Collected Poems 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Eric Carle's Animals Animals (1989) — Contribuinte — 2,176 cópias
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contribuinte — 1,258 cópias
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuinte, algumas edições915 cópias
Favorite Poems of Childhood (1992) — Contribuinte — 817 cópias
The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996) — Contribuinte, algumas edições623 cópias
English Poetry, Volume III: From Tennyson to Whitman (1909) — Contribuinte — 610 cópias
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Contribuinte — 545 cópias
The Victorian Fairytale Book (1988) — Contribuinte — 461 cópias
The Penguin Book of Women Poets (1978) — Contribuinte — 298 cópias
In the Nursery (1932) — Contribuinte — 286 cópias
The Family Read-Aloud Christmas Treasury (1989) — Contribuinte — 277 cópias
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Contribuinte — 236 cópias
Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2005) — Contribuinte — 189 cópias
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (1990) — Contribuinte — 168 cópias
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019) — Contribuinte — 166 cópias
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contribuinte — 140 cópias
A Literary Christmas: An Anthology (2013) — Contribuinte — 134 cópias
Poems of Early Childhood (Childcraft) (1923) — Contribuinte — 118 cópias
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Contribuinte — 114 cópias
Poems Between Women (1997) — Contribuinte — 91 cópias
Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (2020) — Contribuinte — 89 cópias
Beastly Verse (2014) — Contribuinte — 86 cópias
Told Under the Christmas Tree (1941) — Contribuinte — 81 cópias
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contribuinte — 72 cópias
The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997) — Contribuinte — 62 cópias
The Virago Book of Christmas (2002) — Contribuinte — 52 cópias
Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology (1996) — Contribuinte — 48 cópias
The Virago Book of Such Devoted Sisters (1993) — Contribuinte — 44 cópias
Images of Beauty (1804) — Contribuinte — 42 cópias
A Golden Land (1958) — Contribuinte — 42 cópias
366 Goodnight Stories (1963) — Contribuinte — 37 cópias
The Easter Book of Legends and Stories (1947) — Contribuinte — 34 cópias
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias
Easter Buds Are Springing: Poems for Easter (1979) — Contribuinte — 25 cópias
Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (1996) — Contribuinte — 22 cópias
A Christmas Cornucopia (2010) — Compositor — 22 cópias
100 Story Poems (1951) — Contribuinte — 20 cópias
Women on Nature (2021) — Contribuinte — 20 cópias
Masters of British Literature, Volume B (2007) — Contribuinte — 16 cópias
Classic Hymns & Carols (2012) — Contribuinte — 15 cópias
Christmas classics: A treasury for Latter-Day Saints (1995) — Contribuinte — 14 cópias
A Quaint and Curious Volume: Tales and Poems of the Gothic (2019) — Contribuinte — 14 cópias
The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird (2023) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
Fairy Poems (2023) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
In the bleak midwinter (2010) — Autor — 11 cópias
The Religion of Beauty: Selections from the Aesthetes (1950) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
The Germ: Literary Magazine of the Pre-Raphaelites (1850) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Bright Poems for Dark Days: An Anthology for Hope (2021) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Spring World, Awake: Stories, Poems, and Essays (1970) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
Poetry anthology (2000) — Contribuinte, algumas edições6 cópias
Evergreen Stories (1998) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Teen-Age Treasury for Girls (1958) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Winter in the Air (2018) — Compositor — 4 cópias
La poesía inglesa románticos y victorianos — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy (2022) — Compositor — 3 cópias
In The Bleak Midwinter — Autor — 2 cópias
In the Bleak Midwinter — Compositor — 1 exemplar(es)
Der Phoenix und die Taube - Englische Lyrik in deutscher Fassung (1991) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Rossetti, Christina
Nome de batismo
Rossetti, Christina Georgina
Outros nomes
Alleyne, Ellen
Data de nascimento
1830-12-05
Data de falecimento
1894-12-29
Local de enterro
Highgate Cemetery, London, England, UK
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
País (para mapa)
England, UK
Local de nascimento
London, England, UK
Local de falecimento
London, England, UK
Locais de residência
London, England, UK
Educação
private tutors
Ocupação
poet
artist's model
Relacionamentos
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (brother)
Rossetti, William Michael (brother)
Rossetti, Maria Francesca (sister)
Rossetti, Gabriele (father)
Polidori, John William (uncle)
Angeli, Helen Rossetti (niece) (mostrar todas 7)
Polidori, Gaetano (maternal grandfather)
Organizações
Oxford Movement
Pequena biografia
Christina Rossetti's popularity grew after her death and she is now considered one of the leading English Victorian poets. She was born in London, one of four children of aristocratic Italian parents who had emigrated to the UK after her father Gabriele Rossetti was forced into political exile. At age 12, she wrote her first poems, which were printed in the private press of her grandfather. In 1850, under the pseudonym "Ellen Alleyne," she contributed seven poems to the Pre-Raphaelite journal The Germ, founded by her brother William Michael Rossetti and his friends. By the 1880s, Christina had become an invalid from recurring bouts of thyroid disease, which ended her attempts to work as a governess. However, she continued to write. In 1891, Christina apparently developed cancer, and died three years later. Her work influenced that of other writers such as Virginia Woolf, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Philip Larkin. Although not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Christina was engaged for a time to the painter James Collinson, who was a founder of that group with her brothers Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Michael, and she sat as a model for several of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's most famous paintings.

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This is a collection of poems about love, lust, sex, betrayal, and death. So, who decided this was for kids?
 
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eurydactyl | Jul 20, 2023 |
Aterrorizada por el desolado destino de la soltería, Jane Charlmont, la menor de tres hermanas, se lanza sin el menor miramiento a un matrimonio por interés con un viejo y rico viudo, suegro por lo demás del hombre del que estuvo enamorada una de sus hermanas.
 
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Natt90 | 1 outra resenha | Nov 22, 2022 |
Christina was the youngest of the glamorous and talented Rossetti siblings, three-quarter-Italian and brought up in England in the intellectual afterglow of the Byron circle. Apart from being one of the most distinguished women poets of her time (her only real competitor on this side of the Atlantic being Elizabeth Barrett Browning), she's also remembered as the model for many of her big brother's paintings, especially as the Virgin Mary. And, like her brother and the other Pre-Raphaelites, she was heavily involved with the Oxford Movement, a religious revival that aimed to restore some lost medieval piety and glamour to Anglicanism, but ended up sending some of its most prominent followers into the arms of Rome. Partly for religious reasons, Christina never married, although she had at least three offers.

Goblin Market and other poems was Christina's first properly-published collection. The title-poem — her best-known piece after "In the bleak midwinter" — is an odd kind of fairy-tale ballad about two sisters who get involved with a bunch of dodgy supernatural fruit-and-veg salesmen, naive on the surface, but full of all kinds of troubling sexual and religious undercurrents when you start to look at it closely — perfect exam-syllabus material, especially since it's written with so much verve and assurance that it's always great fun to re-read. And the girls come out on top in the end, which helps!

The rest of the collection is a bit mixed, but there's a lot of good stuff there. Short lyric poems where the poet imagines herself abandoned by her lover, rejecting a suitor, widowed, marrying in the presence of a former lover's ghost, lamenting the transience of life and the seasons, etc. Possibly there is a little more focus on death than we might be entirely comfortable with as modern readers: there is a remarkable number of poems in which the speaker of the poem turns out to be talking to us from beyond the grave. Not surprising to learn that Christina had some struggles with depression during her life. But some of these poems are among the strongest in the collection, like the sonnets "After Death" and "Dead before death". Or "Sweet Death" in the religious section at the end. And just occasionally there's a wry touch of humour, as in "No, thank you, John", a woman's exasperated complaint to a tedious suitor straight out of a three-volume novel, who thinks he just has to go on proposing to her for her to realise that she loves him.

Another notable long poem is "The convent threshold", which seems to be a kind of pendant to her brother's "Blessed Damozel" — the speaker of the poem is a woman who has been involved in a relationship that has gone wrong in some unspecified but spectacular way involving lots of blood. She has repented and is entering a convent, but on the doorstep she pauses to urge her lover to do the same, so that they can be reunited in Paradise later.
You sinned with me a pleasant sin:
Repent with me, for I repent.
Woe's me the lore I must unlearn!
Woe's me that easy way we went,
So rugged when I would return!

It's fun to re-read these poems after a gap without much exposure to Victorian poetry: sometimes what Rossetti has to say about religious and female experience might seem a little trite and obvious in hindsight, but that probably wasn't the case at the time, and it's clear that she meant every word of it. What remains striking above all is the confidence and strength with which she fits her deceptively simple language into a precision-aligned poetic structure.
… (mais)
 
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thorold | outras 9 resenhas | Nov 19, 2022 |
I can’t believe I read 300 pages of poetry and actually enjoyed most of it. Because I don’t like poetry. At all.
 
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dkhiggin | 1 outra resenha | Aug 31, 2022 |

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Obras
128
Also by
80
Membros
4,583
Popularidade
#5,493
Avaliação
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Resenhas
56
ISBNs
212
Idiomas
9
Favorito
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