Christina Rossetti (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Commonplace and Other Short Stories (1870) suggests that Christina Rossetti may have once had the notion of becoming a novelist. Unlike other female poets of the period, she wrote a great deal in prose, both secular and religious. “Commonplace,” the title story, is not usually considered to be the best of these prose pieces. That honor is reserved for “The Lost Titian,” the plot of which revolves around two friends’ competitive praise for another friend’s painting. In the end, all three discover one another’s vanities. “Vanna’s...
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