Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 in London. She was the youngest child in a creative Italian family, which included her famous brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their father, a poet and political exile from Italy, fell ill when Rossetti was a teenager and the family suffered financial difficulty. Rossetti started writing at a young age and her poems were often influenced by her religious faith. She published various poems in literary magazines, but it was Goblin Market & Other Poems, published in 1862 to great acclaim, that established her position as a prominent poet. She became ill towards the end of her life, first from Graves’ disease and then from cancer, but she continued to write until her death in 1894.
Esta antología explora la poesía y vida de Christina Rossetti, una autora del siglo XIX. La crítica feminista, críticos de su época y el New Criticism han influido en su interpretación. La obra destaca cómo Rossetti abordó temas como la muerte, Dios y la belleza en su poesía de manera...
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