While the illness restricted her social life, she continued to write poems, compiled in later works such as A Pageant and Other Poems (Macmillan, 1881). The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems (Macmillan and Co.), appeared in 1866 followed by Sing-Song (George Routledge and Sons), a collection of verse for children, in 1872 (with illustrations by Arthur Hughes).īy the 1880s, recurrent bouts of Graves’ disease ended Rossetti’s attempts to work as a governess. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry. Rossetti’s best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems (Macmillan and Co.), was published in 1862. Rossetti is best known for her ballads and her mystic, religious lyrics and her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feeling. In 1850, under the pseudonym Ellen Alleyne, she contributed seven poems to the Pre-Raphaelite journal The Germ, which had been founded by her brother, William Michael, and his friends. Rossetti’s first poems were written in 1842 and printed in her grandfather’s private press. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti also became a poet and a painter. Christina Georgina Rossetti was born on December 5, 1830, in London, one of four children of Italian parents.
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