Rossetti Critics and Context
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- Created on: 10-05-17 20:03
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- Rossetti Poetry
- Critics
- Joshua Bocher - 'her religious views affect everything she wrote, regardless of the topic'
- Joshua Bocher - 'Rossetti's love for God always trumps that of another human'
- Lars Wallner - 'Rossetti spent much of her time devoted to the aspect of death'
- Lars Wallner - 'While her poems may express love, its the pain of love and nothing else'
- Paul Hullah - 'Both pleasure and absence will become absent in sleep'
- Context
- Rossetti was a sufferer of Graves Disease
- Strong Catholic beliefs
- Women should be 'angels in the home'
- Her brother Dante was part of the Romantic Movement
- Victorians were obsessed with the idea of morning
- How you were remembered was very important to Victorians
- Rossetti helped prostitutes and fallen women to reclaim their lives
- Critics
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