Dimensions
129 x 196 x 33mm
An Everyman Classic.
Poet of Gothic imagination, sonneteer to rival Petrarch, renowned religious writer in an age of doubt.
Bearing luscious fruit, goblins try to seduce sisters Lizzie and Laura. Although Laura succumbs, Lizzie resists and, in their anger, the goblins squeeze the fruit onto her body. To rescue her sister, Lizzie sacrifices herself and the goblins' power is defeated.
By many of her contemporaries Christina Rossetti was regarded as Britain's finest living poet, and 'Goblin Market' was her most famous poem. Since then she has been sidelined by history and her breathtakingly varied output forgotten, except for the strange magic of her best known poetry. This long-awaited new collection includes both these and many other poems, and also reprints Rossetti's sparkling stories for the first time, as well as selections from her curious books for children, and from her powerful prose meditations on the human and divine.
The only selection of Christina Rossetti's writings available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism and chronology of her life and times.
