Goblin Market and Other Poems

by Christina Rossetti

Overview

In this representative collection of Christina Rossetti's poems we find a vast array of narrative tales, love lyrics, sonnets, hymns, ballads, and sprightly verses for children. Ranked among the finest English poets of the nineteenth century, Christina Rossetti is a widely read, though not widely imitated poet, recognized for her devotional poetry, influenced by the religious conservatism and asceticism of the Church of England. This collection of poems includes her most renowned work, "Goblin Market", a narrative poem which tells the tale of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who are tempted by river goblins. Also included in this collection is "The Prince's Progress", a tragic tale of loss concerning a princess awaiting the return of her prince. Rossetti's poetry is remarkable for its clarity and simplicity of diction in dealing with themes of truth, beauty, love, death, heavenly joys, earthly pleasures, and purity of faith. All together seventy-one poems are contained herein "Goblin Market and Other Poems", a collection of endearing works of inward contemplation and timeless vision which will inspire and delight readers of all ages. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420975741
Publisher:	Digireads.com
Publication date:	09/14/2021
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 in London. She was the youngest child in a creative Italian family, which included her famous brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their father, a poet and political exile from Italy, fell ill when Rossetti was a teenager and the family suffered financial difficulty. Rossetti started writing at a young age and her poems were often influenced by her religious faith. She published various poems in literary magazines, but it was Goblin Market & Other Poems, published in 1862 to great acclaim, that established her position as a prominent poet. She became ill towards the end of her life, first from Graves’ disease and then from cancer, but she continued to write until her death in 1894.

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