.... Such a wealth of narrative and opinon over twenty-two years makes this present selection unquestionably one of the important personal records in our literature. PAULKAUFMAN University of Washington Christina Rossetti. By LONAMOSK PACKER...

... Christianity’s doctrines and ideas as anything but myopic. This essay explores the doctrine of kenosis as integral to Christianity’s compassionate vision in the work of two writers associated with the nineteenth-century Catholic revival: Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Kenosis describes Christ’s...

.... PAULKAUFMAN University of Washington Christina Rossetti. By LONAMOSK PACKER. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. Pp. xx + 459. $9.00. One by one the Victorian cupboards have been opened: Dickens’ affair with an actress, Ruskin’s marriage “falsely so called...

... Innocentium and of the poetry of R. S. Hawker, R. C. Trench, F. W. Faber, Ed- ward Caswall, and John Mason Neale conclude the survey of Tractarian verse in perhaps its broadest definition. The final chapter considers the Tractarian influence on Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Welcome...

... be included in the lyric, as tense, event, and story. William Michael Ros- setti’s edition of Christina Rossetti, for instance, famously includes her manuscript datings, like the recorded evidence of a life lived behind 10 Richard Cronin, “Casa Guidi Windows: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italy...

... the separate chapters and that give the book the appearance of being a literary study. There are chapters on Clough’s Bothie, Tennyson’s Princess, Elizabeth Barrett Brown- ing’s Aurora Leigh, Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market, and Meredith’s Modem Love. Although Edmond does have initial things...

.... Christina Rossetti. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1963. Pp. xx + 459. $9.00. Packer, Lona Mosk (editor). The Rossetti-Macmillan Letters. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. Pp. xxi + 166. $4.00. Pagliaro, Harold E. (editor). Henry...

... or songlets” and dedicated to Christina Rossetti, who also adopted the form (Swinburne 1962 : 13). Swinburne, who had also begun his own edition of border ballads, composed skillful imitations of these and of French songs, inserted into his posthumous (and incomplete) novel, Lesbia Brandon . Christina...

... conversant and compelling: Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith . Another hot spot of the revival has been Ohio State University Press’s Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies series. Once again, its chronological scope is wider, but its editor, Lori Peterson Branch (associate professor...

... familiar to those in a more secular sphere. Mason returns to the topic of Christian experience, a category frequently occluded when literary scholars entertain any notion of religion. Turning to the work of Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins, she demonstrates how the theological notion of kenosis...

... etry, the strange, modern view that all longing must be sexual, especially if it is the longing of an unmarried Victorian woman,” writes Tennyson, “has ob- scured the extent to which Christina Rossetti’s poetry illustrates not Freud’s theory of art but Keble’s’’ (pp. 202-3). Similarly...

..., 1960. Pp. xvi + 534. Stevenson, Lionel. The English Novel : A Panorama. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. Pp. 539. $4.00. Swam, Thomas Burnett. Wonder and Whimsy: The Fantastic World of Christina Rossetti. Francestown, N.H. : Marshall Jones Company. 1960. Pp. 111...

... both to texts and to other readers. When, in her contribution to this cluster, Emma Mason describes the importance of kenosis, the spiritual practice of self-emptying, to nineteenth-century poets like Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins, she links this mode of receptivity and vulnerability...

... attention to Milton’s relationship to daughters, his matrimonial ones as well as those ascribed to him, notably by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Elizabeth Barrett Brown- ing and Christina Rossetti head the file of Victorian poets who accept “Mil- ton as Classic” — even, in Rossetti’s case, “Milton...

... this “something” in various directions and in a set of diverse authors, paying due attention to Milton’s relationship to daughters, his matrimonial ones as well as those ascribed to him, notably by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Elizabeth Barrett Brown- ing and Christina Rossetti head the file...

... attention to Milton’s relationship to daughters, his matrimonial ones as well as those ascribed to him, notably by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Elizabeth Barrett Brown- ing and Christina Rossetti head the file of Victorian poets who accept “Mil- ton as Classic” — even, in Rossetti’s case, “Milton...

... matrimonial ones as well as those ascribed to him, notably by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Elizabeth Barrett Brown- ing and Christina Rossetti head the file of Victorian poets who accept “Mil- ton as Classic” — even, in Rossetti’s case, “Milton as Bible” — as the title of chapter 2 has it. “Milton...

... this “something” in various directions and in a set of diverse authors, paying due attention to Milton’s relationship to daughters, his matrimonial ones as well as those ascribed to him, notably by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Elizabeth Barrett Brown- ing and Christina Rossetti head the file...

...: to elucidate what Kossetti “shares with his contemporaries” (p. 16) by placing him firmly in his Victorian context. This aim is laudable, and it yields some fresh insights, not only into what Rossetti shared with other Victorians such as Tennyson, Browning, and his sister Christina, but also into what...

... and the changes it has wrought. In this reenactment of her thought process—replete with fully quoted poems by Tennyson and Christina Rossetti—the speaker ruminates on the love poems written before the war and how quaint and conventional they seem now: There was something so ludicrous in thinking of people...