Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

English artist and poet
Date of Birth: 05.12.1830
Country: Great Britain

Biography of Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti was an English poet and artist of Italian descent. Born in 1830, she was the youngest of four children of Italian poet and immigrant, Gabriele Rossetti. Her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was also a poet and artist.

Influenced by her talented older siblings, Rossetti began writing poetry at the age of twelve. Her poetry was characterized by deep religiousness and a reverence for the beauty of nature. She was influenced by the ideas of the Oxford religious movement as well as the literature and painting of the Pre-Raphaelites.

Rossetti's poetry explored various themes, including the transitory nature of sensual pleasures, the power of love and its imperfections, life as a journey towards spiritual heights, death as earned rest, transformation, and reunion with the Eternal. Her poems were known for their rich and original imagery, rhythmic innovation combined with strict poetic structure, skillful interplay of harmony and dissonance, and the naturalness of poetic language.

After her death, Rossetti's poetry fell into obscurity. However, modern English critics have recognized her significant place among the poets of the Victorian era.

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