Rossetti A05

Question 1

Virginia Woolf diary entry for Monday August 5th 1918

Answer 1

But if I were bringing a case against God, she is ome of the first witnesses I should call. It is melancholy reading. First she starved herself of love, which also meant life; then of poetry in deference to what she thought her religion demanded…. Poetry was castrated too

Question 2

Stuart Curran

Answer 2

Christina Rossetti University was settled before she came of age and it neither changed nor developed…. Her poetry is largely devoid of sharp observation, whether intellectual or imaginative. She falls back on pretty language, the bane of so many women poets

Question 3

Richard Gill

Answer 3

There are far more suffering than fulfilled women in her poems