Robert Bridges. George Meredith. Lewis Carroll Renowned Victorian author Lewis Carroll is known for his comic fantasies and humorous, childlike Edward Lear The British poet Edward Lear's poems can be characterized by his irreverent view of the world. Academy of American Poets Educator Newsletter. Teach This Poem. Follow Us. Find Poets. Poetry Near You. Jobs for Poets. Read Stanza. Privacy Policy. Press Center. First Book Award. James Laughlin Award. Ambroggio Prize. They nevertheless retained their evangelical seriousness: Maria eventually became an Anglican nun, and Christina's religious scruples remind one of Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot's Middlemarch : as Eliot's heroine looked forward to giving up riding because she enjoyed it so much, so Christina gave up chess because she found she enjoyed winning; pasted paper strips over the antireligious parts of Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon which allowed her to enjoy the poem very much ; objected to nudity in painting, especially if the artist was a woman; and refused even to go see Wagner's Parsifal, because it celebrated a pagan mythology.
After rejecting Cayley in , according one biographer, Christina like many Victorian spinsters lived vicariously in the lives of other people. Although pretty much a stay-at-home, her circle included her brothers' friends, like Whistler , Swinburne, F.
Brown , and Charles Dodgson Lewis Carroll. She continued to write and in the s to work for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. She was troubled physically by neuralgia and emotionally by Dante's breakdown in Goblin Market and Other Poems was the first collection of her poetry to be published rather than printed, and it was the book that brought her to public attention.
She was remarkably prolific: her Complete Poems Penguin Classics runs to well over 1, pages and is a treasure-trove for the poetry-lover. She took her influences from everyone from the King James Bible to the Metaphysical Poets to the Romantics, but there is something distinctive about her poetry.
She was buried in Highgate Cemetery where fellow Victorian writer George Eliot had earlier been laid to rest. I always sensed a sad acceptance of her illness in her poetry. Reblogged this on Recommended book and blog news, poetry and tarot inspiration and commented: A much admired, by me, poet who deserves more recognition. Enter your email address to subscribe to this site and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address. Interesting Literature is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon.
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