Christina Rossetti Biography || Poetry and career ||
Her Life and Literary Activities : Christina Rossetti definitely occupies a distinctive place in Victorian poetry . She was not , like her famous brother D.G. Rossetti , an English person in birth and blood . Of course , she was born in London on December 5 , 1830. She was the youngest of her parents ' four children . Her father was an Italian who had to leave his country for his political activity . He was somehow forced to settle in London and at last , became a professor of Italian Language and Literature at King's College , London . Her brother , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , was a famous poet of the Victorian period . She had another brother , William Michael Rossetti , who was also quite remarkable as a man of letters of the time . Both of her brothers were at their best as poets but Christina , too , was no less for her poetic talent . She proved , too , the poetess of several well known poems . Infact , the Rossetti family lived in a cosmopolitan atmosphere , full of cul...
