Browning, by a long way and in artless art, if not in intellectual impulse, is greatly Mrs. The two poets achieved different kinds of excellence, as is evident in Dante Gabriel Rossetti‘s comment on his sister, quoted by William Sharp in The Atlantic Monthly (June 1895): “She is the finest woman-poet since Mrs. In Rossetti’s lifetime opinion was divided over whether she or Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the greatest female poet of the era in any case, after Browning’s death in 1861 readers and critics saw Rossetti as the older poet’s rightful successor. Critical interest in Rossetti’s poetry swelled in the final decades of the twentieth century, a resurgence largely impelled by the emergence of feminist criticism much of this commentary focuses on gender issues in her poetry and on Rossetti as a woman poet.
Rossetti’s poetry has never disappeared from view. She was the author of numerous books of poetry, including Goblin Market and other Poems (1862), The Prince’s Progress (1866), A Pageant (1881), and The Face of the Deep (1882).
Christina became one of the Victorian age’s finest poets.
Certainly this ambition was satisfied: Maria was the author of a respected study of Dante, as well as books on religious instruction and Italian grammar and translation Dante Gabriel distinguished himself as one of the foremost poets and painters of his era and William was a prolific art and literary critic, editor, and memoirist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The children received their earliest education, and Maria and Christina all of theirs, from their mother, who had been trained as a governess and was committed to cultivating intellectual excellence in her family. In 1831 Gabriele Rossetti was appointed to the chair of Italian at the newly opened King’s College. He married the half-English, half-Italian Frances Polidori in 1826, and they had four children in quick succession: Maria Francesca in 1827, Gabriel Charles Dante (famous under the name Dante Gabriel but always called Gabriel by family members) in 1828, William Michael in 1829, and Christina Georgina on 5 December 1830. Her father, the Italian poet and political exile Gabriele Rossetti, immigrated to England in 1824 and established a career as a Dante scholar and teacher of Italian in London. Poet Christina Rossetti was born in 1830, the youngest child in an extraordinarily gifted family.
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