I have a very soft spot for Christina Rossetti’s poetry, especially her short, intense verses, full of symbolism and feeling. Summer was published in The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems, in 1866 Summer Winter is cold-hearted, Spring is yea and nay, Autumn is a weathercock Blown every way. Summer days for me When every leafContinue reading “A Poem for the Second Day of Summer. Rereading Christina Rossetti’s Summer”
Category Archives: Victorian Literature
20th June, 1837. The Birth of an Era: Victorian Britain
On Tuesday, 20th June 1837, at 6 o’clock in the morning, Princess Victoria was awoken by her mother, the Duchess of Kent, because the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chamberlain wished to see her. She greeted them in her dressing-gown and slippers, and they informed her that her Uncle, King William IV had diedContinue reading “20th June, 1837. The Birth of an Era: Victorian Britain”
