B. F. Westcott, besides being a learned biblical scholar, was also a wide reader and lover of literature, music, and art. This volume reprints the tribute given by Westcott then Bishop of Durham to the great British poet, Christina Rossetti. Speaking at the dedication of a memorial to her at Christ Church in Woburn Square, where Rossetti was a devoted member for nearly 20 years, Westcott discusses the important role of poets in translating for readers the supernatural beauty of ordinary things. He notes how the true poet is “in fact a seer and not a maker: not one who creates, but one who beholds that which is, and declares what he has seen to souls struggling towards the light.” In Rossetti, he notes, “we recognize the completest consecration of woman’s gifts of poetry to the highest uses.”