Might-have-beens must die
Peter Howarth: Christina Rossetti’s Games, 1 July 2021
New Selected Poems
by Christina Rossetti, edited by Rachel Mann.
Carcanet, 240 pp., £12.99, March 2020,978 1 78410 906 6 Show More
by Christina Rossetti, edited by Rachel Mann.
Carcanet, 240 pp., £12.99, March 2020,
“... to control the overconfidence of the living: the singer in ‘Song’ urges her lover not to grieve, because, when dead, ‘Haply I may remember,/And haply may forget,’ a casualness which implies that he is not nearly as important as he might think. ‘Remember me,’ another dying lover pleads, before changing her mind:For if the darkness and ... ”