Christina Rossetti
By Emma Mason
OUP, 240pp, £30/$39.95
Devotional Victorian poets understood the particularities of nature as manifestations of God’s presence in the cosmos. For instance, Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ understood all of creation to be instances of God communicating aspects of Himself. Along similar lines, Christina Rossetti was also fascinated by nature’s myriad dimensions. Indeed, Rossetti’s care for the created world was always first and foremost theological in its motivations and implications.
