Love through the ages
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) R 
ossetti came from a family of famous siblings including the painter and poet, Dante Gabrielle Rossetti. She wrote a variety of romantic, devotional and children’s poetry, her most famous work being her long poem, Goblin Market and her love poem Remember. She was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and modelled for her brother. A Birthday (published 1860’s) My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a movement of artists and poets (1848-1870). The movement sought to return to the styles that were practised before Raphael (1483-1520) Their art and poetry is characterised by detail, colour and complex composition. Victorian Period – 1830-1901 Realism – 1830-1900 Naturalism – 1865-1900 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) D 
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