This brief letter to an Unidentified correspondent conveys wishes for a Happy New Year (1885). Rossetti to an Unidentified Correspondent. To my/ Dearest Mother,/ In Grateful Remembrance Of The/ Stories/ With Which She Used To Entertain Her/ Children. The volume also contains Robert Browning’s poem, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.”Ĭhristina Georgina Rossetti. This volume contains illustrations by Christina’s brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. London : New York: George Routledge and Sons, Limited  E.P Dutton & Co, 1905.

There are notes on the flyleaf and an attached postcard noting the provenance of the volume.Ĭhristina Georgina Rossetti. This volume is a first edition, advance proof copy sent to the Brownings. Cambridge, London: Macmillan and Co, 1862. The Armstrong Browning Library holds over thirty of Christina’s books and two letters.Ĭhristina Georgina Rossetti. Maria was distinguished by her study of Dante, Dante Gabriel by his poetry and painting, William Michael by his art and literary criticism, and Christina by her poetry. She wrote a variety of devotional, romantic, and children’s poems, and is perhaps most well-known for the lyrics of the Christmas carol “In the Bleak Midwinter,” her long poem Goblin Market, and her love poem “Remember.”Ĭhristina was the youngest child of an extraordinarily gifted family, Maria Francesca, Gabriel Charles Dante, William Michael, and Christina Georgina, all born between 18. After Barrett Browning’s death in 1861, readers saw Rossetti as Barrett Browning’s rightful successor. Today I will allow nothing to stop me from finding the good in my life and from putting it to best use.Written by Melinda Creech, Graduate Assistant, Armstrong Browning LibraryĬhristina Georgina Rossetti shared the limelight with Elizabeth Barrett Browning as the greatest female poet of the nineteenth century. They fought the dogs and killed the cats,Īnd licked the soup from the cooks’ own ladles, It tells of a mysterious piper who is hired to rid the town of a plague of rats but who, after being cheated of his payment for the task, lures away the town’s children in revenge. He found the idea for his most famous poem, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, in his father’s huge library. His work was generally not well received until he came to public notice by marrying the poetess Elizabeth Barrett. He was brought up by strict but loving parents and well educated – by the age of twelve he was writing verses. On this day in 1812 English poet Robert Browning was born. To listen to this post click the play button below:

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