Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) was an English poet of the Victorian period. Educated at home by her parents, especially through the classics, religious texts, and fairytales, Christina was also influenced by Italian writers such as Dante Alighieri and Petrarch, as her father was an exiled Italian poet. Her first poems were published in 1848 when she was only seventeen. Bouts of illness and depression plagued Christina throughout her life; mortality, death, and corruptibility are recurring themes in her poems. Eventually publishing more than nine hundred poems in a handful of collections, Rossetti is considered one of the greatest poets of the Victorian period. She died from cancer in 1894.

Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothy Day, Søren Kierkegaard, C. S. Lewis, Philip Yancey, Eberhard Arnold, Edith Stein, Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, J. Heinrich Arnold, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dorothy L. Sayers, Johann Christoph Arnold, George MacDonald, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Sadhu Sundar Singh, Thomas Merton, Christina Rossetti, Leo Tolstoy, N. T. Wright, William H. Willimon and Meister Eckhart

Has there ever been a more hard-hitting, beautifully written, theologically inclusive anthology of writings for Lent and Easter? It’s doubtful. —... Read More

Acclaim

This handsome hardback has brief readings from some of the world’s leading literary and spiritual writers, offering just enough meaty and aesthetically-rich writing to please and challenge anyone who wants to dip in to a more mature sourcebook.

Hearts and Minds Bookstore
Lent is a season of restraint, but this compiled book is a Lenten (and paschal) smorgasbord, offering more than 70 excerpted readings for Lent and Easter. Inside you’ll find writings of spiritual leaders, theologians, literary favorites, mystics, and justice heroes, including Clarence Jordan, Kathleen Norris, Ernesto Cardenal, Simone Weil, Wendell Berry, Madeleine L’Engle, Philip Berrigan, and Oscar Wilde, to name a few.

Sojourners
Has there ever been a more hard-hitting, beautifully written, theologically inclusive anthology of writings for Lent and Easter? It’s doubtful. Many readers may well find that this collection – a sequel to the highly successful 'Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas' – is the one book they return to year after year, forgoing their usual custom of buying a new Lenten devotional each spring. Caveat lector: no one should have this much pleasure during Lent!

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