It’s the birthday of Pre-Raphaelite poet Christina Rossetti, born in London in 1830.
She published her most famous collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), when she was 31 years old. And most people today would probably recognize one of her poems as a well-known Christmas carol.
It begins:
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter
Long ago.
–From The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor, December 5, 2022
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