ABSTRACT
Christina Rossetti, a contemporary of Dixon, was another Tractarian poet whose work Hopkins knew and admired. Like Hopkins, she was deeply interested in the analogies between the natural and supernatural worlds, and in the meeting of the two in Christ's Incamation. Many of her poems treat of the relationship between this world and the next, and of the position occupied by humans. The ideas of the two poets, even when dealing with similar topics, show a schism as distinct as the difference between their poetic styles, but, like Hopkins, her theology and her technique were grounded in Tractarianism.
