Rossetti Poems Critics Flashcards
Sandra Gilbert And Susan Gubar: “The Madwoman in the Attic”.
“Rossetti loses herself in the aesthetics of renunciation, experiencing an almost extreme self-pity and self-congratulation at her self-denial.”
Lynda Palazzo: “Christina Rossetti’s Feminist Theology”.
“Rossetti has radically rewritten the Fall of Eve in terms of the social and spiritual abuse of women”
Anthony H. Harrison: “Love and the Ideal in the Poetry of Christina Rossetti”.
“the only true and permanent fulfillment of love is to be found in the art it gives birth to”
Simon Avery: British Library.
“Rossetti’s speakers demonstrate both an awareness of, and resistance to, those social and political expectations which define acceptable roles for women and which potentially leave them powerless.”
Gaynell Gall: “The Possibilities of Interpretation in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”.
“Rossetti effortlessly and sharply convinces her audience that she is a woman whom the conventions of society could not shake in any area”
Dolores Rosenblum: “Christina Rossetti - The Poetry of Endurance”.
“Her poetry has been valued…for its affirmations of female poetry, passivity and submission…”
John Ruskin, in a letter to Dante Gabriel after the publication of Goblin Market”.
“Your sister should exercise herself in the severest commonplace of meter until she can write as the public like.”
Ford Madox Brown.
“Christina Rossetti seems to us to be the most valuable poet that the Victorian Age produced”
