Christina Rossetti's Later Life
A Double Sonnet of Sonnets (1881): Exploring the Fearfulness of Forgiveness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880542 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Ludlow (0000-0001-9103-3884, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 84-93 |
| Publication date | 2014-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12127 |
| OpenAlex | W1578208017 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets , Christina Rossetti models a posture of fearfulness in the face of God's unique prerogative to forgive. Throughout, she deploys the dialogic properties of the sonnet sequence to engender recognition of the relational basis of existence. Unpacking its psalm‐inflected exploration of the interior journey of sin, shame and redemption, this article details Later Life's affinity with the poetics of George Herbert and John Donne. It also proposes that Later Life anticipates Karl Barth's Reformation‐inflected emphasis on the shattering recognition that ‘Through the forgiveness of sins... there is reflected in this human self‐consciousness a consciousness of a wholly different self’ (532)
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Face (sociological concept · Forgiveness · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Shame · Sonnet · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology · Social Psychology · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |