Christina Georgina Rossetti

(1830-1894)
Rossetti's poetry was deeply religious and admiration for the beauty of nature. Born Dec. 5, 1830 in London, the youngest of four children of Italian poet-exile GA Rossetti (1783-1854). One of her brothers - a poet and artist DG Rossetti. Being under the influence of his talented older brothers and sisters, Rossetti began writing poems in twelve years of her poetry have had a marked influence of the religious ideas of the Oxford Movement and Pre-Raphaelite literature and painting. Rossetti died in London on December 29, 1894.
Some topics lyric Rossetti: the vanity of sensual pleasures; power of love and its imperfections, and life as an ascent to spiritual heights, death as a deserved rest; transformation and reunion with the Eternal. In Rossetti's poetry is characterized by the richness and originality of the images, rhythmic innovation, combined with strict architectonics of verse, skilful alternation of harmony and dissonance, and naturalness of poetic language.

Lyrics Rossetti have forgotten after her death, but the modern English critic gives it a prominent place among the poets of the Victorian era.