Selected Poems: Rossetti

A new edition of Christina Rossetti's poetry

A selection of Rossetti's poems that includes an introduction, a chronology of Rossetti's life and works, and explanatory notes.

'Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land'

The poems in this volume display the extraordinary talent of Christina Rossetti, one of the nineteenth century's most important English poets. Here, ordinary and magical worlds collide as humans speak to God, poets speak to their muses and hope battles against despair. Devotional poems such as 'St. Peter' and 'Out of the Deep' describe Rossetti's profound religious faith, while 'Mariana', 'Heart's Chill Between' and 'Twice' are among many meditations on the bittersweet nature of love. This volume also includes the seminal, bewitching fantasy 'Goblin Market', rife with fairy-tale enchantment and menace.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Dinah Roe