Christina Rossetti

By Jan Marsh

Book Overview

Jan Marshs book is the best researched and fullest biography of Rossetti we have yet had. Fiona MacCarthy New York Review of Books

Although never formally part of the Pre-Raphaelite poetic school which included her brother Gabriel William Morris and Algernon Swinburne Christina Rossetti has always been linked to it. Jan Marsh] gives full attention to both the individual and her unique variety of fantastic and devotional poetry... Marsh delineates an appealing person while examining her adolescent nervous breakdown abortive engagement to a lapsed Catholic painter frustrated love for an absentminded scholar and relationships with her devout but hearty sister Maria and with her brothers... The authors steady sympathetic course through Rossettis divided life enables readers to delve into the intense and original self most fully expressed in her poetry. Kirkus Review

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571296114
• ISBN13: 9780571296118
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Faber Finds
• Length: 658 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Fine Poetry Complemented by Fine Paintings

In the pre-raphaelite spirit of detailed craftsmanship this accomplished range of Christina Rossetti's poetry is illustrated by fine works of art that includes paintings by her brother and other pre-raphaelite painters, all contrasting with today's ugly, imitative fashions.(Please note: This book is not entitled Passion and Devastion but Passion and Devotion)