Christina Rossetti, Critical Perspectives, 1862-1982An extensive review of the critical reception Rossetti's poems have received in Britain and the United States. This volume both summarizes and explains the changing interests evinced by critics of Rossetti's works. |
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... grace , of remote and curious charm . " " Witness " a child's quaint familiarity with the impos- sible " in " Goblin Market , " and " the child's terror and attraction " in her ghost poems in which dead people try vainly and desperately ...
... grace , of remote and curious charm . " " Witness " a child's quaint familiarity with the impos- sible " in " Goblin Market , " and " the child's terror and attraction " in her ghost poems in which dead people try vainly and desperately ...
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... grace as best I Ready to spend and be spent for your sake . [ 61-62 ] In the nineteenth century , critics compared Rossetti with the religious poets of the seventeenth century , particularly George Herbert , Robert Herrick , and Henry ...
... grace as best I Ready to spend and be spent for your sake . [ 61-62 ] In the nineteenth century , critics compared Rossetti with the religious poets of the seventeenth century , particularly George Herbert , Robert Herrick , and Henry ...
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... grace . [ 247 ] What Sawtell dubs a liberating faith , a few others have called piteous and sure to reap unhappiness . " Up - hill " ( 1858 ) -praised by critics of earlier periods for the sincerity of its faith that , al- though the ...
... grace . [ 247 ] What Sawtell dubs a liberating faith , a few others have called piteous and sure to reap unhappiness . " Up - hill " ( 1858 ) -praised by critics of earlier periods for the sincerity of its faith that , al- though the ...
Contents
List of Illustrations | 8 |
Criticism 18621899 | 23 |
Criticism 19001939 | 68 |
Copyright | |
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