Photograph by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Public domain.
What Serany thinks about Christina Rossetti
Who they are
Christina Rossetti grew up in a London house full of painters and poets, and her brother Dante Gabriel drew her more than once. She wrote most of her best-known work before she was twenty-five, and died in 1894.
Why we'd read them at a funeral
She wrote about dying at eighteen and nineteen and got it right, which is why English families have been reading her at funerals for over a century. She lets the living off the hook: forget me if you need to, and smile.
Our favourite of theirs
Poems by Christina Rossetti
2 in all
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