Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun. – Christina Rossetti About Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti, the Victorian era English poet, is known for the melancholy themes in such poems as Goblin Market and When I Am Dead. She was born in 1830 in London to Italian-born parents. Her father was poet Gabriele Rossetti and her brother was the painter/poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She rejected two marriage proposals because, although she loved both men, neither shared her religious devotion. According to her brother, she wrote effortlessly and rapidly. She died in 1894.
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