Christina Rossetti

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 by Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings.

Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti
(1830-12-05)5 December 1830
London, England

29 December 1894(1894-12-29) (aged 64)
London, England

Poet

Pre-Raphaelite

Goblin Market; lyrical poems; hymns

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (brother)
Maria Francesca Rossetti (sister)
William Michael Rossetti (brother)
Gaetano Polidori (maternal grandfather)
John William Polidori (maternal uncle)

Verses, London: privately printed, 1847

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Goblin Market and Other Poems

The Prince's Progress and Other Poems

Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872, 1893)

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(1881)

A Pageant and Other Poems

Verses, London: , 1893^[54]

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

New Poems, London: Macmillan, 1896

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The Rossetti Birthday Book, London: privately printed, 1896

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The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, ed. , London: Macmillan, 1904

William Michael Rossetti

The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti, ed. Rebecca W. Crump with publication notes, in three volumes, : Louisiana State University Press, 1979–1985

Baton Rouge

When I am Dead my Dearest

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Thomas, Frances (1994). . Hachette UK. ISBN 978-1-4055-2500-8.

Christina Rossetti: A Biography

Poems and poetry at the Poetry Foundation

Profile at Poets.org

In our time, BBC Radio 4 (audio, 45 minutes)

"Christina Rossetti"

at University of Kansas Libraries

Rossetti Family Correspondence

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Online books

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Works by Christina Rossetti

Open Library

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Works by or about Christina Rossetti

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Works by Christina Rossetti

in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

Free scores by Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti in Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)

. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Christina Rossetti