Other well-known collections include
The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, Sing-Song: A Rhyme Book, and
A Pageant and Other Poems, the last of which includes the sonnet sequence "Monna Innominata." Other popular individual poems from Rossetti include "A Birthday," "When I Am Dead," and "Up-Hill," as well as the title poem from her first commercial collection,
Goblin Market. Most of Rossetti's work was influenced by her devout religious convictions and the pressures placed upon all women during Victorian times. "Undeniably, her strong lyric gifts are often held in check by her moral and theological scruples," H. B. de Groot explained in Dictionary of Literary Biography, "but at times it is that very tension which gives her best poems their distinctive quality." Dealing with themes such as unrequited love, the transitory nature of love, death, resignation, female creativity and responsibility, sisterhood, and unresolved sexuality, Rossetti has become one of the primary spokespersons for the Victorian female psyche, writing--in addition to her adult poetry--fiction, nonfiction, and children's verse. "Rossetti has often been called the greatest Victorian woman poet," Arseneau wrote, "but her poetry is increasingly being recognized as among the most beautiful and innovative of the period of either sex."
A Family of Artists
Rossetti was born into an artistic family on December 5, 1830, in London, England.
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