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Biographical note: Christina Georgina Rossetti was born in 1830 in London, England. She was the sister of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and formed the subject of many of his paintings. Rossetti began writing when she was seven, but was thirty-one before she saw her first publication. During the 1860s and ‘70s she worked in a refuge for former prostitutes. She was widely regarded as one of the most important women poets of the Victorian era. She died in 1894 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery.
Biographical note: Chris Emery was born in Manchester in 1963 and studied painting and printmaking in Leeds. He is Publishing Director of Salt in Cambridge, England. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The Age, Jacket, Magma, Poetry London, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, PN Review and The Rialto. A first full-length collection, Dr. Mephisto (Arc Publications, 2002), his latest collection is Radio Nostalgia (Arc Publications, 2006). He is also the author or a bestselling writer's guide, 101 Ways to Make Poems Sell (Salt Publishing, 2006). He lives in Great Wilbraham with his wife, three children and various other animals.
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EAN13: 9781844714995
ISBN: 9781844714995
Author: Christina Rossetti
Title: Goblin Market and Other Poems
Series: Salt Pocket Classics
Product class: BB
Language: eng
Audience: General/trade
BIC subject category: CTCD1
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Pub date: 01-Apr-09
Extent: 80pp
Height: 146 mm
Width: 114 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight: 120 gms
Supplier: Gardners Books
Supplier: Ingram Book Group
Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability: IP
Price: GBP 9.99
Price: USD 14.95
Rights: World
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description/annotation: Rossetti’s imagination is profoundly religious and Christian themes dominate her writing. Her most famous poem, ‘Goblin Market’, is at first reading is a tale of two sisters and their misadventures with goblins, yet the work is multi-faceted, sexual and complex. This selection contains her best known poems and includes some fine examples from her devotional writing.
Main description: Christina Rossetti’s poetry was largely ignored in the early part of the twentieth century, during the Modernist movement’s backlash against much Victorian writing. However, by the 1970s Rossetti was rescued from obscurity and her poetry gained in popularity.
Rossetti’s imagination is profoundly religious and Christian themes dominate her writing. Her most famous poem, ‘Goblin Market’, is at first reading is a tale of two sisters and their misadventures with goblins, yet the work is multi-faceted, sexual and complex. Many see elements of early feminism in her work; Rossetti worked as a volunteer at a women’s refuge for former prostitutes.
Rossetti was plagued by illness and depression, yet by the time of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s death in 1861, she was hailed as the next ‘female laureate’, and viewed as a natural successor. This selection contains her best known poems and includes some fine examples from her devotional writing.
Selected by Chris Emery and published to coincide with National Poetry Month, April 2009.
Table of contents:
Goblin Market
Dream-Land
An End
Song
A Summer Wish
Winter: My Secret
Dead Before Death
Rest
Up-Hill
One Certainty
Spring Quiet
The Poor Ghost
On The Wing
Beauty Is Vain
The Bourne
Summer
Life And Death
Somewhere Or Other
Song
Love Lies Bleeding
A Christmas Carol
Monna Innominata
The Thread Of Life
Birchington Churchyard
One Sea-Side Grave
A Song Of Flight
A Wintry Sonnet View excerpt as PDF:  Click here to view a sample (56 KB)
Excerpt from book:
A Christmas Carol
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty
Jesus Christ.
Enough for Him whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him whom angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.
Angels and archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Throng'd the air,
But only His mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshipped her Beloved
With a kiss.
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part,-
Yet what I can I give Him,
Give my heart.
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