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Christina Rossetti's biography

Christina Rossetti was the youngest of four children born to Italian poet Gabriel Rossetti and half-Italian, half-English mother Frances Polidori. Artistic ambition and talent were strong in all of the Rossetti children. Christina Rossetti's older brothers are the famous poet and artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who she often modelled for; and William Michael Rossetti, who was a critic, writer, and also the editor of the literary magazine The Germ.

As a teacher at King's College, Christina Rossetti's father, Gabriel, prized education. His wife Frances also aided in encouraging education and the cultivation of intellect in their four children. While Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti were formally educated, Christina and her sister Maria received homeschooling from their mother.

Christina's education largely included novels, poems, fairy tales, classics, and religious texts, which played a significant role in shaping her identity

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Christina Rossetti

English poet (1830–1894)

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst, Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings.

Early life and education

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Christina Rossetti was born in 38 Charlotte Street (now 110 Hallam Street), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy, since 1824, and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician John William Polidori.^[1] She had two brothers and a sister: poet Gabriel became an influential artist and poet, and William Michae

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Featured on the program of Music on the Hill’s upcoming concert, Songs of Love and Springtime, is The Rose by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo, setting ord by English poet Christina Rossetti.

The Rose

The lily has a smooth stalk,
  Will never hurt your hand;
But the rose upon her brier
  Is lady of the land.

There's sweetness in an apple tree,
  And profit in the corn;
But lady of all beauty
  Is a rose upon a thorn.

When with moss and honey
  She tips her bending brier,
And half unfolds her glowing heart,
  She sets the world on fire.

Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) was an English romantic poet. Her poetry is beautiful, with a flowing, lyrical quality that lends the poetry well to music. You may recognize her as the poet of the well known Christmas carols In the Bleak Midwinter by Gustav Holst and Love Came Down at Christmas.

The Rose is mysterious and deceptively simple; its sweet verses mask something el