Rose christina rossetti biography summary
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Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti was born on December 5, 1830, in London, one of four children of Italian parents. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti; her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti also became a poet and a painter. Rossetti’s first poems were written in 1842 and printed in her grandfather’s private press. In 1850, under the pseudonym Ellen Alleyne, she contributed seven poems to the Pre-Raphaelite journal The Germ, which had been founded by her brother, William Michael, and his friends.
Rossetti is best known for her ballads and her mystic, religious lyrics; and her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feeling. Rossetti’s best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems (Macmillan and Co.), was published in 1862. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry. The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems (Macmillan and Co.), appeared in 1866 followed by Sing-Song (George Routledge and Sons), a collection
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Christina Rossetti
English poet (1830–1894)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst, Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set bygd Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet poet Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings.
Early life and education
[edit]Christina Rossetti was born in 38 Charlotte Street (now 110 Hallam Street), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy, since 1824, and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician John William Polidori.[1] She had two brothers and a sister: poet Gabriel became an influential artist and poet, and William Michae
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Featured on the program of Music on the Hill’s upcoming concert, Songs of Love and Springtime, is The Rose by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo, setting text by English poet Christina Rossetti.
The Rose
The lily has a smooth stalk,
Will never hurt your hand;
But the rose upon her brier
Is lady of the land.
There's sweetness in an apple tree,
And profit in the corn;
But lady of all beauty
Is a rose upon a thorn.
When with moss and honey
She tips her bending brier,
And half unfolds her glowing heart,
She sets the world on fire.
Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) was an English romantic poet. Her poetry is beautiful, with a flowing, lyrical quality that lends the poetry well to music. You may recognize her as the poet of the well known Christmas carols In the Bleak Midwinter by Gustav Holst and Love Came Down at Christmas.
The Rose is mysterious and deceptively simple; its sweet verses mask something el