Summer

Author(s): Christina Rossetti

Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: Andy Harrington, Algy Pug, Bruce Kachuk, Bridget Herbes, Brian Darby, David Lawrence, Garth Burton, Ian King, Lee Ann Howlett, Maria Kasper, Matthew Datcher, Tomas Peter

Number of Chapters: 12

Length: 16 minutes

Language: English

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.
Rossetti was educated at home by her mother and father, who had her study religious works, classics, fairy tales and novels. Rossetti delighted in the works of Keats, Scott, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. The influence of the work of Dante Alighieri, Petrarch and other Italian writers filled the home and would have a deep impact on Rossetti's later writing. Their home was open to visiting Italian scholars, artists and revolutionaries. - Summary by Wikipedia