Today’s Poem: A Birthday
The intense interior life of Christina Rossetti
It might not surprise us too much to learn that according to her father, Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) and her brother, the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), were human “storms” in the family weather. Another brother and sister, William and Maria, were the corresponding “calms.”
By all acco…
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