Since Arthur Symons s declaration in 1895 in the Saturday Review that Christina Rossetti was among the great poets of the nineteenth century, Rossetti s image among critics has undergone permutations as divergent as Victorian culture is from postmodern. Now Diane D Amico redeems Rossetti from the various one-dimensional castings assigned her across the generations those of a saint writing poetry for God; of a sexually repressed, neurotic woman of minor talent; and, most recently, of a subversive feminist questioning the patriarchy and renders a fuller, more intricate understanding of the...