Christina Rossetti
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An Unexpected Literary Pilgrimage
in MarginaliaWe are too fond of putting writers on pedestals. We turn them into portraits, movements, dates, themes and quotations, until the person can almost disappear behind the literature. Literary pilgrimage has a way of re-humanising authors.
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Christina Rossetti – ‘No, Thank You, John.’
in PoetryRossetti employs commas like stun grenades, in the final line of this surprisingly modern poem about unwanted attention.