The Critical Reception of Christina Rossetti
In this lecture, Dr Ross Wilson (University of Cambridge) explores the critical reception of Christina Rossetti, both in her own lifetime and in the 20th and 21st centuries. In particular, we look at the critical appraisal of Sir Walter Raleigh (the Oxford professor, not the Elizabethan courtier), Virginia Woolf, Edmund Gosse, and Stuart Curran.
This lecture is part of a larger course on the poetry of Christina Rossetti. The full course can be found here: www.massolit.io/courses/the-p...
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Very fascinating; thank you.
Thank you very much for this very interesting video. I look forward to others.
@MASSOLITeducation
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! You can find the full course at www.massolit.io
Christina Rossetti is simply a great poet - I was holding a boof of her poetry and a friend near me told me I was holding the book and a friend near me siad I was holding it as if it were the bible. I said irwas a Bible. I am an ateist but find her relighious poetry convincing in a metaphorical sense.
Great sir, love and respect from India
cracking vid!!!!!
I agree with Virginia Woolf if I do understand correctly. I grew up with god spirituality it my poems raised above god and o think Christi is was so beautiful to focus on the idea of god as it is in most religions . She was mostly concerned with her own feelings . I hope I understand clearly
Either I'm half asleep or the esteemed speaker is jumping too fast from one thread to another and sometimes reversing the leap.
i love her and Sara Teasdale
A House of Cards Is neat and small Shake the table they must fall Count the court cards one by one Raise them roof them now it’s done Shake the table, they must fall!
Virginia Woolf's criticism of Rossetti's castrated poetry doesn't necessarily allude to the latter's lack of divine love; rather it's this very divine love which seems to have robbed her poetry of romantic love....and I thought the esteemed speaker was making this simple point unnecessarily convoluted....or maybe it's better to say goodnight to the waking world and be done with words words words
such a hot lecturer! I would not miss my classes
@bellringer929
8 ай бұрын
It's not a compliment to his intellectual prowess.... His beautiful brain is nothing to u?
@amnaanwar1019
23 күн бұрын
LMAOOOO
I agree that Robert Browning has been vastly overrated in comparison to Browning.