Who Has Seen the Wind?
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A Daughter of Eve
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was an English poet and member of a prolific literary family, which included her father Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and political refugee from Italy; her mother, Frances Polidori, a scholar in her own right and sister to John Polidori, who was friend and physician to Lord Byron (and penned the first modern vampire story); her brother Dante Rossetti, poet and leading artist of his day; and her two other siblings, William Michael and Maria, who also became writers. Poets Gerard Manley Hopkins and Alfred, Lord Tennyson praised Rossetti’s first volume, Goblin Market and Other Poems when it first appeared in 1862. With this first book, Rossetti was seen as the obvious heir to Elizabeth Barrett Browning (who died the year before) as premiere English poetess.
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Remember
A Daughter of Eve
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was an English poet and member of a prolific literary family, which included her father Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and political refugee from Italy; her mother, Frances Polidori, a scholar in her own right and sister to John Polidori, who was friend and physician to Lord Byron (and penned the first modern vampire story); her brother Dante Rossetti, poet and leading artist of his day; and her two other siblings, William Michael and Maria, who also became writers. Poets Gerard Manley Hopkins and Alfred, Lord Tennyson praised Rossetti’s first volume, Goblin Market and Other Poems when it first appeared in 1862. With this first book, Rossetti was seen as the obvious heir to Elizabeth Barrett Browning (who died the year before) as premiere English poetess.
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