{"product_id":"the-silence-rossetti-dark-romanticism-journal","title":"The Silence — Rossetti Dark Romanticism Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Silence more musical than any song.\" Rossetti argued for quiet in a sonnet, then spent a career proving it on the page — which is where this one waits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristina Rossetti, \"Rest\" (1862)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Silence more musical than any song.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eContext\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rest\" runs fourteen lines, and this is the tenth — the turn where the sonnet stops describing stillness and starts insisting on it. Rossetti's quiet is a finished, chosen thing, not an absence. Verified against the 1862 first edition, \u003cem\u003eGoblin Market and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe writer who has their best thoughts before the rest of the house wakes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe one who keeps a notebook because it's where a thought forms unwatched\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who has turned the music off to find the sentence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpen it in the quiet. Keep it there.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSILENCE on the cover, set large; the line completes beneath it in a quieter weight. In your hands the heaviest thing on the page is what isn't there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-silence-rossetti-dark-romanticism-t-shirt\"\u003eSilence Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-silence-rossetti-dark-romanticism-mug\"\u003eSilence Mug\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5.5\" × 8.5\" hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e80 pages of lined, cream-colored paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatching elastic closure and ribbon marker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpandable inner back pocket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eChristina Rossetti, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived 1830–1894, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished \u003cem\u003eGoblin Market and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e in 1862, at 31 — the volume where \"Rest\" first appeared\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote more than a thousand poems; over nine hundred were published in her lifetime\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote the poem behind the carol \"In the Bleak Midwinter\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeclined marriage more than once on religious grounds; one of the most widely read women poets in English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644912570462,"sku":"5970439_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Silence_Rossetti_Dark_Romanticism_Journal_front.png?v=1782880265","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-silence-rossetti-dark-romanticism-journal","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}