Rossetti - AO5 critics
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WOMEN: G Galt
“Rossetti effortlessly as sharply convinces her audience that she is a woman whom …
the conventions of society could not shake in any area; that she had her own agenda in life”
WOMEN: S Phillips
Rossetti writes of the “struggle of female piety against …
corruption”
WOMEN: S Avery
“Her views may not always be radical as such, but they are usually …
far from conservative and often questioning, challenging and potentially subversive”
RELIGION: Z Weiss
“Rossetti creates analogies between the biblical depiction of salvation and the …
social context of the Victorian era”
WRITING STYLE: D Rosenblum
“Her poems often describe double or transitional states of being and are typically built of …
paradox, including the paradox of her career: that she became famous for speaking of silence and oblivion”
NO, THANK YOU JOHN: S Avery
“She is not …
bullied into a relationship because a man or social convention more generally demands it”
TWICE: A Harrison
“The attack is implicit in its six brief stanzas in upon the …
powerlessness of women in a rigid patriarchal society”
GOBLIN MARKET: G Galt
“A very obvious Christ figure: Lizzie, the sister of …
Laura and her ‘saviour’ in a way”
DESPAIR: C.M. Bowra
“None of her poems reflect joy or hope; in her the idea of love …
turned inexorably to the idea of death”