Christina Georgina Rossetti / Eleanor Walter Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Eleanor Walter, 1880-1969, author.

Series:

Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature.

Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--Biography.

Authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1931]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A biography of Christina Rossetti and a critical study of her work. Calls particular attention to the relation of the poet's work to the literature of her time, to the ways in which her prose books inform her poetry, and to the association of some of her poems with the experiences of her life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

I . VICTORIAN ROMANTICISM AND CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

II. THE EARLY YEARS,1830-1848

III. RELIGION AND ART,1848-1851

IV. SOCIAL LIFE, FRIENDSHIPS, AND LOVE, 1851-1876

V. WILLIAM MICHAEL AND DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

VI .TORRINGTON SQUARE,1876-1894

VII. THE ART OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI HER METHOD OF WORK AND ATTITUDE TO HER ART HER STYLE AND DICTION

VIII. THE UNAPPARENT WORLD VISION, ALLEGORY, SYMBOL GHOSTS AND GOBLINS

IX . POEMS OF THE MATERIAL WORLD AND OF THE PERSONAL LIFE

X. POEMS AND TALES FOR CHILDREN; SHORT STORIES

XI . THE QUEST FOR THE INFINITE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

VITA

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231879798

0231879792

OCLC:

1100429771