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Christina Rossetti

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Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. [1]

89 relations: A Pageant and Other Poems, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Anglo-Catholicism, Ann Radcliffe, Annunciation, Avant-garde, Ballad, Basil de Sélincourt, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Bear McCreary, Bloomsbury, Catholic Church, Charles Cayley, Charlotte Street, Children's literature, Church of England, Cruelty to animals, Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Depression (mood), Ecce Ancilla Domini, Editions Musica Ferrum, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Jennings, Ellis, Feminism, Fernand Khnopff, Ford Madox Ford, Frances Polidori, Gabriele Rossetti, Gaetano Polidori, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Goblin Market, Goblin Market and Other Poems, Graves' disease, Gustav Holst, Hallam Street, Harold Darke, Highgate, Highgate Cemetery, In Our Time (radio series), In the Bleak Midwinter, J. K. Rowling, James Collinson, John Brett (artist), John Ireland (composer), John Keats, John William Polidori, Kathleen Jones, ..., London, Lord Byron, Louisiana State University Press, Love Came Down at Christmas, Macmillan Publishers, Madame Tussauds, Magdalene asylum, Maria Francesca Rossetti, Matthew Lewis (writer), Modernist poetry in English, Mother and Child (song cycle), New Poems, Philip Larkin, Pietism, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Prostitution, Regent's Park, Romanticism, Roundel (poetry), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sexual repression, Sexual slavery, Slavery, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Song cycle, Sonnet, The Athenaeum (British magazine), The Century: America's Time, The Cuckoo's Calling, The Germ (periodical), The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Vasto, Victorian era, Virginia Woolf, Vivisection, Walter Scott, William Michael Rossetti, Women's suffrage. Expand index (39 more) »

A Pageant and Other Poems

A Pageant and Other Poems is Christina Rossetti's fourth collection of poetry.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic.

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Anglo-Catholicism

The terms Anglo-Catholicism, Anglican Catholicism, and Catholic Anglicanism refer to people, beliefs and practices within Anglicanism that emphasise the Catholic heritage and identity of the various Anglican churches.

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Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe (born Ward, 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel.

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Annunciation

The Annunciation (from Latin annuntiatio), also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady, or the Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Basil de Sélincourt

Basil de Sélincourt (1877–1966) was a British essayist and journalist.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city.

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Bear McCreary

Bear McCreary (born February 17, 1979) is an American composer and musician living in Los Angeles.

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Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, between Euston Road and Holborn.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Charles Cayley

Charles Bagot Cayley (1823–1883) was an English linguist, best known for translating Dante into the metre of the original, with annotations.

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Charlotte Street

Charlotte Street is a street in Fitzrovia, central London.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Cruelty to animals

Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction by omission (animal neglect) or by commission by humans of suffering or harm upon any non-human animal.

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Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and a member of the Rossetti family.

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Depression (mood)

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, tendencies, feelings, and sense of well-being.

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Ecce Ancilla Domini

Ecce Ancilla Domini (Latin: "Behold the handmaiden of the Lord"), or The Annunciation, is an oil painting by the English artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first painted in 1850 and now in Tate Britain in London.

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Editions Musica Ferrum

Editions Musica Ferrum is a music publishing company.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett,; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

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Elizabeth Jennings

Elizabeth Jennings (18 July 1926 – 26 October 2001) was an English poet.

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Ellis

Ellis is a first name and surname of English and Welsh origin.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (12 September 1858 – 12 November 1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter.

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Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer; 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature.

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Frances Polidori

Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, later Rossetti, of London (1800-1886) was a scholar, daughter, wife and mother of important writers and artists, she was the governess of her four children.

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Gabriele Rossetti

Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti (28 February 1783 – 24 April 1854) was an Italian nobleman, poet, constitutionalist, scholar, and founder of the secret society Carbonari who emigrated to England.

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Gaetano Polidori

Gaetano Fedele Polidori (1763–1853) was an Italian writer and scholar living in London.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

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Goblin Market

Goblin Market (composed in April 1859 and published in 1862) is a poem, commonly mistaken as a narrative, by Christina Rossetti.

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Goblin Market and Other Poems

Goblin Market and Other Poems is Christina Rossetti's first volume of poetry, published by Macmillan in 1862.

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Graves' disease

Graves' disease, also known as toxic diffuse goiter, is an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid.

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher.

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Hallam Street

Hallam Street is a road situated in the Parish of St Marylebone and London’s West End.

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Harold Darke

Harold Edwin Darke (29 October 1888 – 28 November 1976) was an English composer and organist.

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Highgate

Highgate is a suburban area of north London at the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath, north north-west of Charing Cross.

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Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England.

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In Our Time (radio series)

In Our Time is a live BBC radio discussion series exploring the history of ideas, presented by Melvyn Bragg since 15 October 1998.

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In the Bleak Midwinter

"In the Bleak Midwinter" is a Christmas carol based on a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, ("rolling";Rowling, J.K. (16 February 2007).. Accio Quote (accio-quote.org). Retrieved 28 April 2008. born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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James Collinson

James Collinson (9 May 1825 – 24 January 1881) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850.

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John Brett (artist)

John Brett (8 December 1831 – 7 January 1902) was an artist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, mainly notable for his highly detailed landscapes.

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John Ireland (composer)

John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 187912 June 1962) was an English composer and teacher of music.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.

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John William Polidori

John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician.

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Kathleen Jones

Kathleen Jones (born 1946) is an English poet and biographer.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.

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Louisiana State University Press

The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press that was founded in 1935.

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Love Came Down at Christmas

"Love Came Down at Christmas" is a Christmas poem by Christina Rossetti.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Madame Tussauds

Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with smaller museums in a number of other major cities.

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Magdalene asylum

Magdalene laundries, also known as Magdalene's asylums, were institutions from the 18th to the late 20th centuries ostensibly to house "fallen women", a term used to imply female sexual promiscuity or work in prostitution.

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Maria Francesca Rossetti

Maria Francesca Rossetti (17 February 1827 – 24 November 1876) was an English author and nun.

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Matthew Lewis (writer)

Matthew Gregory Lewis (9 July 1775 – 14 or 16 May 1818) was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his 1796 Gothic novel, The Monk.

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Modernist poetry in English

Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists.

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Mother and Child (song cycle)

Mother and Child is a song cycle for soprano and piano composed in 1918 by John Ireland (18791962).

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New Poems

New Poems (Neue Gedichte) is a two-part collection of poems written by Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926).

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Philip Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian.

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Pietism

Pietism (from the word piety) was an influential movement in Lutheranism that combined its emphasis on Biblical doctrine with the Reformed emphasis on individual piety and living a vigorous Christian life.

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Regent's Park

Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Roundel (poetry)

A roundel (not to be confused with the rondel) is a form of verse used in English language poetry devised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909).

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

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Sexual repression

Sexual repression is a state in which a person is prevented from expressing their own sexuality.

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Sexual slavery

Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is attaching the right of ownership over one or more persons with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in one or more sexual activities.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) is the oldest Anglican mission organisation, and the leading publisher of Christian books in the United Kingdom.

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Song cycle

A song cycle (Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle, of individually complete songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.

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Sonnet

A sonnet is a poem in a specific form which originated in Italy; Giacomo da Lentini is credited with its invention.

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The Athenaeum (British magazine)

The Athenaeum was a literary magazine published in London, England from 1828 to 1921.

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The Century: America's Time

The Century: America's Time is a 15-part series of documentaries produced by the American Broadcasting Company about the 20th century and the rise of the United States as a superpower.

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The Cuckoo's Calling

The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

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The Germ (periodical)

The Germ, thoughts towards nature in art and literature (1850) was a periodical established by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to disseminate their ideas.

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The Prince's Progress and Other Poems

The Prince's Progress and Other Poems is Christina Rossetti's second volume of poetry, published by Macmillan in 1866.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.

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Vasto

Vasto (Abruzzese: lù Uàštë; Histonion, Histonium) is a town and comune on the Adriatic coast of the Province of Chieti in southern Abruzzo, Italy.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

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Vivisection

Vivisection is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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William Michael Rossetti

William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829 – 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic.

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Women's suffrage

Women's suffrage (colloquial: female suffrage, woman suffrage or women's right to vote) --> is the right of women to vote in elections; a person who advocates the extension of suffrage, particularly to women, is called a suffragist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti

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