Christina Rossetti Selected Poetry

1877 Saturday Review (on publication of Goblin Market and other poems)

"There is not much thinking in them, not much high or deep feeling, no passion"

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Dante Rossetti- sadly smitten invalid

Rossetti was "an almost constant often a sadly smitten invalid"

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti- countenance of death

"She saw the countenance of death very close to her own"

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Lynda Palazzo- original sin

Rossetti's work "includes more than a hint that male gender oppression can be interpreted as original sin"

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Simon Avery- uncompromising analysis

Rossetti's poems are "uncompromising in their analysis of women's place in society"

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Simon Avery- independence and agency

Rossetti's poems encourage women "to claim independencr and agency"

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Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

she was one of the "singer of renunciation" of her time

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Simon Avery- dominant masculinity

"Maude Clare is a clear critique of dominant masculinity"

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Rossetti was "an almost constant often a sadly smitten invalid"

Dante Rossetti- sadly smitten invalid

"She saw the countenance of death very close to her own"

Rossetti's work "includes more than a hint that male gender oppression can be interpreted as original sin"

Rossetti's poems are "uncompromising in their analysis of women's place in society"

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