Emma Mason\u2019s new critical study of Christina Rossetti\u2019s poetry and prose is the latest in the Oxford University Press\u2019s series Spiritual Lives.<\/p>\n
Mason looks closely at her \u201ccontribution to emergent environmentalism\u201d, reading Rossetti as a poet who \u201cgentles\u201d her audience into finding Grace through a recognition of the \u201ckinness of nature\u201d. Her poems of swans and stars, lilies and rainbows are reinterpreted in the light of Rossetti\u2019s Tractarian faith.<\/p>\n
Keble, Pusey, and Newman all privileged poetry as an art that could conjure the \u201cworld out of sight\u201d, and represent the intercommunion of all Creation. The notion of \u201creserve\u201d, within the Tractarian tradition \u2014 the unfolding of divine truth gradually, delightfully \u2014 seems particularly relevant with Rossetti. She exemplifies Keble\u2019s ideal, crafting poetry at once \u201cfervent yet sober, . . . neither wild and passionate, nor light and airy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mason also highlights Rossetti\u2019s family connections with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which her brother Gabriel\u2019s described as an \u201cArt-Catholic\u201d.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n @Marmeladrome<\/a> Christina Rossetti worshipped at Christ Church, Albany Street which has Seraphim and Cherubim around the apse over the altar. It also has a stone water trough outside the church which froze every winter. The church is located between Camden rich, poor & military pic.twitter.com\/Hp5IS8p6KI<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Stephen J. Robin (@stephenjrobin) December 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n