Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) were both regarded as the female poet laureates of their time, and between them their writings spanned almost the entire Victorian age, from the end of Romanticism to the beginnings of Modernism. This selection of their shorter works contains all the major themes that animated them-social justice, faith, love, and mortality-and some of the best-loved poetry in the English language, including In the Deep Midwinter and How Do I Love Thee? These poems reflect the changing world in which they were composed, but they also reflect the complex passions of two extraordinary women.

Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 in London and educated at home. She was associated with the Pre-Raphaelites through her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Her first collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), was extremely successful, followed by The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866) and A Pageant and Other Poems (1881). She also wrote a collection of verse for children and several essays about religion. After her death in 1894, her eldest brother, William, brought out a complete collection of her poetry. Rachel Mann is an Anglican parish priest and writer. She was Poet-in-Residence at Manchester Cathedral between 2009 and 2017 and is the author of seven books, including Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory and God (DLT, 2017). She is Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing and English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her first collection of poetry, A Kingdom of Love, was published by Carcanet in 2019.

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EAN	9789626349205
Title	Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti
Format	Abridged Audiobook Classical
Studio	Naxos AudioBooks
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By (author)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
By (author)	Christina G. Rossetti
Read by	Rachel Bavidge