Editing Christina Rossetti (section)

==Recognition==
Rossetti's popularity in her lifetime did not approach that of her contemporary [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], but her standing remained strong after her death. Her popularity faded in the early 20th century in the wake of [[Modernist poetry in English|Modernism]], but scholars began to explore Freudian themes in her work, such as religious and [[sexual repression]], reaching for personal, biographical interpretations of her poetry.<ref name="ODNB"/> 

Academics studying her work in the 1970s saw beyond the lyrical sweetness to her mastery of [[Metre (poetry)|prosody]] and [[Poetry|versification]]. Feminists held her as a symbol of constrained female genius and a leader among 19th-century poets.<ref name="Poets.org"/><ref name="ODNB"/> Her writings strongly influenced writers such as [[Ford Madox Ford]], [[Virginia Woolf]], [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]], [[Elizabeth Jennings (poet)|Elizabeth Jennings]], and [[Philip Larkin]]. The critic [[Basil de Sélincourt]] called her "all but our greatest woman poet... incomparably our greatest craftswoman... probably in the first twelve of the masters of English verse."<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>''TLS'', 4 December 1930.</ref>
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The year stood at its equinox,
  And bluff the North was blowing.
A bleat of lambs came from the flocks,
  Green hardy things were growing.
I met a maid with shining locks,
  Where milky kine were lowing.

She wore a kerchief on her neck
  Her bare arm showed its dimple.
Her apron spread without a speck
  Her air was frank and simple.

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|source = From "The Milking-Maid" poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BJQyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA205 ''A Gallery of English and American Women Famous in Song''] (1875), J.M. Stoddart & Company, pp. 205-207.</ref>
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Rossetti's Christmas poem "[[In the Bleak Midwinter]]" became widely known in the English-speaking world after her death, when set as a Christmas carol by [[Gustav Holst]] and later by [[Harold Darke]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7752029.stm|title=Bleak Midwinter named best carol|date=27 November 2008|via=news.bbc.co.uk|access-date=18 April 2023|archive-date=18 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418031645/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7752029.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> Her poem "[[Love Came Down at Christmas]]" (1885) has also been widely arranged as a carol.<ref>[http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/love_came_down_at_christmas.htm Hymns and Carols of Christmas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129193305/http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/love_came_down_at_christmas.htm |date=29 November 2010 }}(2003) Brother Tristam, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd, p. 172 {{ISBN|978-1-85311-479-3}}(Episcopal Church (United States))#April|honoured with a feast day]] on the liturgical calendar of the Anglican Church on 27 April.</ref><ref name="CofE">{{Cite web |url=http://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-worship/worship/texts/the-calendar/holydays.aspx |title=ChurchofEngland.org, Holy Days calendar. |access-date=10 March 2013 |archive-date=25 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225084824/https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/join-us-daily-prayer |url-status=live }}</ref>

British composers receptive to Rossetti's verse included [[Alexander Mackenzie (composer)|Alexander Mackenzie]] (''Three Songs'', Op. 17, 1878), [[Frederick Cowen]], [[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]] (''Six Sorrow Songs'', Op. 57, 1904), [[Charles Hubert Parry|Hubert Parry]], [[Hope Squire]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Merrick |first=Hope |title=Hope Squire |url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=hope+squire |url-status=live |access-date=28 December 2021 |website=www.worldcat.org |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228204955/https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=hope+squire |archive-date=28 December 2021}}</ref> [[Charles Villiers Stanford]], and [[Jack Gibbons]] (sixteen song settings).<ref>[http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2013/aug13/Singing_bird_SH076.htm ''My Heart is Like a Singing Bird: Song settings of poetry by Christina Rossetti''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210910091249/http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2013/aug13/Singing_bird_SH076.htm |date=10 September 2021 }}, Sheva CD SH076 (2013)</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Christina Rossetti in Music |url=https://omeka.uottawa.ca/christinarossettiinmusic/ |access-date=30 March 2024 }}</ref> In 1918, [[John Ireland (composer)|John Ireland]] set eight poems from her ''Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book'' to music in his [[song cycle]] ''[[Mother and Child (John Ireland)|Mother and Child]]''.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.lieder.net/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=274
|website=The LiederNet Archive |title=Texts to Mother and Child: Song Cycle by John Ireland  
|accessdate=29 April 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{IMSLP2 |work=Mother and Child (Ireland, John) }}</ref> The first verse of [[Yoko Ono]]'s song "[[Who Has Seen the Wind? (song)|Who Has Seen the Wind?]]" (1970) was taken from Rossetti's homonymous poem.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Beatles Solo on Apple Records|last=Spizer |first=Bruce|pages=20, 28–29|year=2005|publisher=498 Productions|isbn=0966264959}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Pop Music|author=Aronoff, Herbert|newspaper=The Gazette|date=March 7, 1970|page=44|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82818207/the-gazette/|accessdate=2021-08-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Who Has Seen the Wind?|author=Rossetti, Christina|date=25 April 2017 |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43197/who-has-seen-the-wind|publisher=Poetry Foundation|accessdate=2021-08-04}}</ref>

The poem "Song" was an inspiration for [[Bear McCreary]]'s composition ''When I Am Dead'', published in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCreary |first=Bear |author-link=Bear McCreary |date=February 24, 2015 |title="When I Am Dead" |url=https://bearmccreary.com/when-i-am-dead/ |access-date=September 2, 2023 |publisher=BearMcCreary.com |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902175328/https://bearmccreary.com/when-i-am-dead/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Two of Rossetti's poems, "Where Sunless Rivers Weep" and "Weeping Willow", were set to music by Barbara Arens in her ''All Beautiful & Splendid Things: 12 + 1 Piano Songs on Poems by Women'' (2017, [[Editions Musica Ferrum]]). Rossetti's "Love is Like a Rose" was set to music by [[Constance Cochnower Virtue]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Constance Virtue - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive |url=https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=7885 |access-date=23 August 2021 |website=www.lieder.net |archive-date=7 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307153350/https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=7885 |url-status=live }}</ref> "Love Me, I Love You," was set to music by [[Hanna Vollenhoven]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hanna Von Vollenhoven - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive |url=https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=7911 |access-date=23 August 2021 |website=www.lieder.net |archive-date=18 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618053919/https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=7911 |url-status=live }}</ref> and "Song of the Dawn" was set to music by [[Elise Fellows White]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |title=International encyclopedia of women composers|date=1987|isbn=0-9617485-2-4|publisher=Books & Music|edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged |location=New York |oclc=16714846}}</ref>

In 2000, one of many Millennium projects across the country was a poetry stone placed in what had been the grounds of North Hill House in Frome. On one side is an excerpt from her poem, "What Good Shall My Life Do Me": "Love lights the sun: love through the dark/Lights the moon's evanescent arc:/Same Love lights up the glow-worms spark." She wrote about her brief stay in Frome, which had "an abundance of green slopes and gentle declivities: no boldness or grandeur but plenty of peaceful beauty".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.discoverfrome.co.uk/poetry-millennium-green/ |title=Poetry on the Millennium Green |date=29 September 2016 |website=Discover Frome |language=en-GB |access-date=14 August 2019 |archive-date=28 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128075710/https://www.discoverfrome.co.uk/poetry-millennium-green/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2011, Rossetti was a subject of a Radio 4 programme, [[List of In Our Time programmes#2011–2012|''In Our Time'']].<ref name="In Our Time 1 December 2011">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017mvwy|title=BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Christina Rossetti|website=BBC|access-date=18 April 2023|archive-date=9 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109203636/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017mvwy|url-status=live}}</ref>

The title of [[J. K. Rowling]]'s novel ''[[The Cuckoo's Calling]]'' (2013) follows a line in Rossetti's poem ''A Dirge''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140617115247/http://robert-galbraith.com/about/. Retrieved 9 June 2019.]</ref>

Christina Rossetti is commemorated in the [[Church of England]] calendar on 27 April.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Calendar |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar |access-date=27 March 2021 |website=The Church of England |language=en |archive-date=15 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215173755/https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar |url-status=live }}</ref>