An Appreciation of the Late Christina Georgina Rossetti
Overview
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.”
- Title: An Appreciation of the Late Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Author: Brooke Foss Westcott
- Publishers: SPCK, E. & J. B. Young & Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1899
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 › Religion; Women and literature › England--History--19th century; Christian poetry, English › History and criticism
- Resource ID: LLS:NPPRCTNGRGRSSTT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-13T22:32:11Z
Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) was a British bishop, biblical scholar, and theologian serving as bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death.
Westcott studied at Trinity College in Cambridge where he graduated in 1848. He stayed at Trinity, where in 1849 he obtained his fellowship and was ordained deacon and priest. He received honorary degrees from Oxford in 1881 and Edinburgh 1883. In 1890, he became the bishop of Durham.
He has authored several works, including Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek, A General View of the History of the English Bible, Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians.