CHRISTINA ROSSETTI: Learning Not to Be First by Kathleen Jones

Author:Kathleen Jones [Jones, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Biographies
ISBN: 9780956730329
Publisher: The Book Mill
Published: 2011-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

When rages the conflict fierce and hot,

If Mr Bright retiring does not please

And Mr Gladstone staying gives offence,

What can man do which is not one of these?

Use your own commonsense.12

When it was suggested that Christina should write more poetry in a political vein she declined vigorously. 'It is impossible to go on singing out loud to one's one-stringed lyre. It is not in me, and therefore it will never come out of me, to turn to politics or philanthropy with Mrs Browning; such many-sidedness I leave to a greater than I, and having said my say, may well sit silent.'13

In the autumn of 1863 Christina saw a review of a volume of poetry by a new poet called Jean Ingelow, and on 31 December she wrote to Dora Greenwell

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