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Article: Christina Rossetti's last poem: "Sleeping at Last" or "Heaven Overarches"?(Critical Essay)
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- Victorian Newsletter
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- March 22, 2003
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In 1896, two years after Christina Rossetti's death, her brother William Michael Rossetti published New Poems, a collection of his sister's previously unpublished or uncollected poems. Included in this collection are two that he identified as the very last his sister wrote: "Sleeping at Last" and "Heaven Overarches." The titles are William Michael's; Christina had left both untitled. After each poem, appears the date "circa 1893." "Heaven Overarches" concludes the section William titles "devotional poems" and "Sleeping at Last" concludes the section he titles "general poems." Importantly, in his editorial note to "Sleeping at Last," William also describes it as a ...
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