Publisher's Synopsis
This book tries to re-read Christina Rossetti's poems and to see them in a new light. It focuses on the tension that arose out of Rossetti's awareness of women's psychic repression and her quest for a way to transcend the 'trapped' state. It is a revision and revaluation of the existing materials on Christina Rossetti and an attempt to re-evaluate Rossetti in order to add a varied shade to the colourful spectrum that Christina Rossetti is. Along with the essays explicating the poems, this book contains a chronology of Rossetti's life and times as well as a selection of the poems for ready reference. The book is primarily targeted at the students of English literature; however the topics in the book are elucidated in an elaborate and comprehensive manner, which makes it easy for the readers who are not acquainted with the literary background.
