A Birthday Resources

This is a great resource, with links to articles, poems, criticism, biography—you name it.

It may not be trimmed with squirrel fur, but you'll like this Foundation just the same.

Poets.org offers up a short, but sweet, biography and links to Rossetti's work.

The actress is this video seems sufficiently smiley.

If you like classical music and star wipes, this video is for you.

This is pretty cool. It's an old recording of British acting legend Sir John Gielgud reading "A Birthday."

This interpretation really gets the sense of contentment across.

This is a photo of the poem's original publication in Macmillan's Magazine. You may have to squint to read it, though.

There aren't very many…happy images of Christina Rossetti. This is one of her least grumpy-looking portraits.

This article from the British Library discusses Rossetti's work in the context of women in Victorian society.

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