In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patrick Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I was reading Christina Rossetti's well-known poem 'Remember' >yesterday and wondered if she had Purcell's famous aria 'Remember me' >from Dido and Aeneas in mind when she wrote it. Or Marlowe's 'Dido >Queen of Carthage', or, indeed, the Aeneid itself. Any of these could >have been quite fresh in her mind as she wrote 'Remember' when she was >only nineteen and therefore not long out of education. It may be taken for granted that she had read Vergil; it wouldbe interesting to show she knew the early modern works mentioned. Marlowe seems likelier than Tate/Purcell at that date.
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