Rossetti Critical Quotes

'Cherries are ‘unpecked’ as a reference to virginal innocence’

‘Despite these differences, the two are bound together’

‘A strength and passivity. She is a regendered Christ figure in suffering for her sister’

‘A woman seeking to establish a sexual identity before marriage is doomed’

‘Erotic readings of Goblin Market are our creations, not Christina’s’

‘There is for Laura no clear line between good and evil’

‘The poem remains essentially ambiguous’

‘There is nothing meek or self-effacing in her demand for emotional fulfilment’

‘The vivid strangeness of her imagery is compelling’

‘Seeks rather to express extreme moods and passions’

‘The speakers of Rossetti’s poems repeatedly struggle with religious doubt’

‘Rossetti had radically rewritten the fall of Eve in terms of social and spiritual abuse of women'