Synopses & Reviews
An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) wrote some of the most beautiful and voluptuous poetry in the English language. Like Emily Dickinson, she lived in self-imposed isolation, writing of God and lost love with a sensuality and passion that seemed to emanate from the soul.
This edition of 53 works combines a number of her best-known sonnets, ballads, and shorter lyrics with her long masterpiece, the narrative fable Goblin Market. A haunting fairy tale in verse, Goblin Market was once labeled a children's poem, yet its intricate symbolism and themes of temptation, sin, and redemption mark it for an adult audience. Among other works included in this choice collection are "The Convent Threshold," "Up-hill," "Cousin Kate," "Winter: My Secret," "Maude Clare," "No, Thank You, John," and "After Death."
Synopsis
Features 32 works among them "The Convent Threshold," "Up-hill," "Cousin Kate," "Winter: My Secret," "Maude Clare," and celebrated title poem.
Synopsis
This edition of 32 works combines a number of the English poet's best-known sonnets, ballads, and shorter works, along with her long masterpiece "Goblin Market." Others in this choice collection include "The Convent Threshold," "Up-hill," "Cousin Kate," "Winter: My Secret," "Maude Clare," "No, Thank You, John," and "After Death."
Table of Contents
From
Goblin Market and Other Poems, 1862
Goblin Market
Dream Land
At Home
A Triad
Cousin Kate
Spring
A Birthday
Remember
After Death
An End
Song ("Oh roses for the flush of youth")
A Summer Wish
An Apple Gathering
Song ("Two doves upon the selfsame branch")
Maude Clare
Echo
Winter: My Secret
Another Spring
"No, Thank You, John"
May
A Pause of Thought
Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")
Sister Maude
The First Spring Day
The Convent Threshold
Up-Hill
'A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break"
A Better Resurrection
The Three Enemies
The One Certainty
Sweet Death
The World
From The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, 1866
Spring Quiet
A Portrait
Dream-Love
Twice
One Day
A Dream
Beauty is Vain
What Would I Give?
The Bourne
Memory
Shall I Forget?
Vanity of Vanities
L.E.L.
Life and Death
Grown and Flown
Despised and Rejected
The Lowest Place
From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, 1875
Consider
A Smile and a Sigh Paradise: In a Dream From New Poems, Hitherto Unpublished or Uncollected, 1896
Sleeping at Last