Selected Poems of Rossetti (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Collection) [Paperback]

Christina Georgina Rossetti (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1, 1998 | Series: Wordsworth Collection

Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular poet. Rosetti s inner life dominates her poetry, exploring loss and unattainable hope. Her divine poems have a freshness and toughness of thought, while many of her love poems are erotic, and as often express love for women as for men. The varied threads of Rossetti's concerns are drawn together in what is perhaps her greatest poem, the strange and ambiguous Goblin Market.304

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd; First Edition edition (April 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1853264296
• ISBN-13: 978-1853264290
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,956,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Reading Of "A Year's Windfalls", September 11, 2008

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This seems to me Rossetti at her best, for reasons I explain in the video. She is quite good at describing the effects of the natural world on her inner life. - Her devotional poems, which constitute the greater part of this volume, unfortunately fall flat as poems if one can't hear the music of the hymns to which many of them have been set.