by Bragatyr » Sat May 13, '17, 2:01 am
Thank you very much, myau! Man, you know a thousand times more about English and English writers than I do about French, so you're way ahead of me. Hopefully one day I will be able to get familiar with more French literature.
And thank you so much once again, Silver Surfer! Massive kudos to you for being a Christina Rossetti fan, I myself am new to a lot of her writings, I briefly checked out some of her stuff along with a book of her brother's poetry in college, definitely read Goblin Market and a few others but probably preferred Dante Gabriel Rossetti at the time.
Now I'm totally reevaluating her work, just picked up a more complete collection of her stuff at the LSU book bizarre a couple months ago and have been blown away by it. Her work is so personal and reverent and earnest, it almost hurts to read it at times because it's so brutally honest, but really beautiful stuff.
I had not read the poem you mentioned before, like much of her work, and was about to get upset because I couldn't find it in my book until I googled it and found that it goes by a lot of names, so luckily I have a copy of it, ha ha. I read it as soon as I found it, and loved it, very beautiful, one of the best poems about the Nativity I've read. I will definitely record that one.