Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti

This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of 19th century poet Christina Rossetti. Rossetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring the themes of loss and unattainable hope across subjects ranging from love to the divine. With an Introduction and Notes by Katherine McGowran. 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'.

Christina Rossetti was an English poet, born in London in 1830. She is best known for her ballads and her mystic religious lyrics. And her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feelings. Her collection Goblin Market and Other Poems, published in 1862, established her as a significant voice in Victorian poetry. She died due to a terminal illness in 1892, after which her brother mainly edited her collected works.