D. G. Rossetti and Christina Rossetti As Sonnet Writers (Critical Essay‪)‬

Sonnets and Sun Pictures Both Rossettis, despite the deep differences John Holmes has pointed out, were audacious writers of sonnets. (1) I am writing about two sonnets where the neediness of seeing is paramount, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's first Willowwood sonnet from The House of Life, published in Poems (1870) and the sixth sonnet from Christina Rossetti's Later Life sequence, published in A Pageant and Other Poems (1881), the year her brother's sequence was finalized in Ballads and Sonnets. (2)