critics Rossetti Flashcards
what does the 1877 saturday review say about rossettis poetry
NEGATIVE
“not much high or deep feeling”
“no passion and no sense of the vast blank space which a great poet always finds encompassing”
what does the 1877 saturday review say about rossettis poetry
POSATIVE
“molodias and sweet”
“ quaint origonality”
what does virginia woolf say about rossettis god
“your god was a harsh god, your heavenly crown was set with thorns”
what does virginia woolf say abour CRs religeon and poetry
” the pressure of a tremendous faith circles” “clamps together these little songs”
what do sandra gilbert and susan gubar say about CR
“experiencing an almost extreme self pity and self congratulation at her self denial”
what does lynda palazzo say about men and CR
“male gender opression” can “be interpreted as origonal sin”
what does lynda palazzi say about rossetti and femanism
“rewritten the fall of eve in terms of the social and spiritual abuse of women which she sees around her”
what does anthony H Harrison say about love
“the only true and permenent fufillment of love is to be found in the art it gives birth to”
what does dolores rosenblum say about women
“in a patriarchal culture women inevitably experiences herself as object and other”
what does simon avery say about rossetti (‘s speaker)
“an awereness of and resistance to those social and political expectations which define acceptable roles for women” … “leave(ing) them powerless”
what do andrew stewart and alexandra russel say about maude claire
“hegemonic defanitions of victorian femininity”
“reinforce or challange these gendered ideals in their reflections on the position of women”
what does gaynell galt say about CR
“she is a woman whom the conventions of society could not shake in any area”
what does Bowra C M say about CR
” a melancholy desire for death and for a kind of death not closely connected wit her usual ideas of an afterworld”
what does joshua bocher say about CR
“In the end, Rossetti’s love for God always trumps the love of another human,”
what does anthony H harrison say about CR’s poetry
” focus is not… fuffilling earthly love… but … apparently inevitable culmination of all compulsive amatory passions- renuncication”
