‘Thou Whole Burnt-Offering!’ The Mystical Ecstasy in Christina Rossetti’s Poems

Christina Rossetti has come to the wrong place: there is no answer. In order to while away the time, she will write poems which stage her one Passion for God, with whom she has fallen head over heels in love, more than with life itself, since she repulses men, whom she finds inadequate, in a Victori...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bertrand Lentsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2009-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/5849