Selected Poems

by Christina Rossetti, C.H. Sisson (Editor)

Overview

First published in 2002. This is a collection of poems, songs and couplets by Christina Rossetti, including Maude: A Story For Girls, Christina's Maude is undoubtedly a self-portrait, and a highly critical one-but critical with standards of scrupulosity. The place of Christina's birth was 38 Charlotte Street, Portand Place, London; the date, 1830.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317958284
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/03/2014
Series:	Fyfield Books
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	164
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Christina Rossetti C.H. Sisson

Table of Contents

Introduction ,Couplet ,Mary Magdalene ,Spring Quiet ,Song ,Bitter For Sweet, Three Stages 1. A Pause Of Thought ,2. The End Of The First Part ,J ,One Certainty ,Two Pursuits, A Testimony , Songs: After Death, Looking Forward ,Remember ,Seeking Rest ,A Portrait ,Endurance ,Withering ,Twilight Calm ,Two Thoughts of Death ,Is And Was ,The Three Enemies,The Flesh ,The World ,The Devil ,The Summer Is Ended ,From The Antique ,For Rosaline's Album, Poems Continued../ Maude: A Story For Girls

Editorial Reviews

Sisson is the quintessential English litterateur: career civil servant, poet with over 20 collections published since 1959, essayist, editor, novelist, critic and translator (Latin and other languages). The first poems here date from WW II; the last, a sequence, was written in 1995 when Sisson was 81. Throughout, his concerns are similiar: identity; mind and body; age; culture; landscape. His judgments of himself, and of humanity generally, are often harsh. "I have no person fit for resurrection," he says in an early poem; in one of the latest he writes, "So fumbling bodies try to make/ Friendship and love as best they can:/ None ever was without mistake/ and lies by woman and by man." Sisson is consistently plain, if not always clear; in these poems, he is rarely adventurous in meter or language. Individual poems"On My 51st Birthday" and "The Mappemonde"are outstanding, but the collection overall has a one-note tone and seems somewhat dated and weighty. (June)

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