Rossetti: CRITICS Flashcards
SIMON AVERY
Rossetti…
“Had complicated views on female suffrage and equality”
John Ruskin
Rossetti…
“Should exercise herself in the severest commonplace of metre until she can write as the public like”
- Public were against Rossetti
- Traditonal viewpoint
Gagnier
“Willingly accepts the poor state of society into which she was cast”
Mold
“Rossetti wrote poems that give a vibrant voice to the female experience”
John Ruskin on the suitor that Rossetti rejected in real life… also called John
“By rejecting a potential suitor, the speaker asserts the right to say ‘no’.”
Simon Avery on Rossetti’s side?
“Her views may not always be ‘radical’”
Barbara Modern
“Ungodly and unfeminine discontent.”
McGann (on Goblin Market)
“the need for an alternative social order.”
D’Amico
“she must have believed a fallen woman need not forever be a social outcast”
Mermin
“Christina Rossetti stopped trying to rebel”
Betty Flowers
Afraid somebody “could come between a woman and her love of God.”
Virginia Woolf
“Everything in Christina’s life radiated from that knot of agony and intensity in the centre.”
George Landow
“spirit of devotion.”
Bocher
“In Rossetti’s poetry, God is always present, is always there — sometimes in the foreground, sometimes in the background.”
Harrison
“desire for Christ, the ideal lover”
