It offers a splendid introduction to the glories of Rossetti’s work as well as a lovely keepsake edition for those already acquainted with the deeply spiritual poet.īound in black cloth with red gilt-embossed cover and spine titles, and a full color jacket. of the English poets best-known sonnets, ballads, and shorter works, along with her long masterpiece Goblin Market. This volume also includes such popular poems as “The Hour and the Ghost,” “My Dream,” “Mirage,” “Twilight Calm,” and 32 other wondrous meditations on love and loss, death and remembrance, and nature and spirituality. For older readers, the market’s lusciously described fruits represent the temptations of self-indulgence, rendering the poem a moving moral allegory of pleasure, sacrifice, and redemption.

The centerpiece is Rossetti’s most famous work, “Goblin Market,” a haunting fairy tale.įor children, the narrative fable offers a romp through a fantasy world. Combines two classic collections of poetry: Goblin Market and Other Poems and Shorter Poems. It contains her famous poem Goblin Market. From one of the finest poets of the Victorian era, the sister of artist D.G. Goblin Market and Other Poems is Christina Rossettis first volume of poetry, published by Macmillan in 1862. The fairy-tale like title poem of 2 sisters, one of whom is tempted by the goblin market and eats their food, and the other sister who risks the same to save her life is beautiful. Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or olderīeautifully illustrated with 16 full-color paintings and scores of line drawings by an artist inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, a superb artist but due to a more limited output, far less known than her contemporaries like Rackham, Dulac and Charles Robinson, whose b&w work may have inspired Harrison.

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