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Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti was the most important devotional poet published during the nineteenth century (Gerard Manley Hopkins's poems were not published until 1914). In her own time she was esteemed as the greatest living female

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Christmastide

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Poets Book of Days

December 29

Christina Rossetti died, 1894

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

Who blamed the U.S. Civil War on Sir Walter Scott?

Answer

Mark Twain. The war was sometimes referred to as having "called chivalry's bluff."

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