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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.8
EAN: 9780140423662
ISBN: 0140423664
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1312
Publication Date: November 01, 2001
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date: October 30, 2001
Sales Rank: 80085
Studio: Penguin Classics
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Book Description:
Christina Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This first fully annotated collection, based on the definitive texts, brings together fantasy poems such as 'Goblin Market,' terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics, sonnets, hymns, and ballads, as well as the vast body of her devotional poetry. Weaving connections between love and death, triumph and loss, heavenly joys and earthly pleasures, Rossetti's poems startle the imagination with their extraordinary truth, beauty, and intensity.
This edition, the only one available in paperback, incorporates contextual notes as well as notes on the text and language, an introduction, and a chronology of Rossetti's life and work.
Edited by R. W. Crump. Introduction and notes by Betty Sue.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Thorough
This 1,221 page edition is not easy to carry around with you, but it contains all of Rossetti's extensive poetry, plus a helpful introduction and extensive endnotes. If you want to delve beyond her "greatest hits" like "Goblin Market" and "Up-Hill," you'll find it all there, including her less popular devotional poems.
Rating:  - Poetry is alive!!!!!
Thank God that we can still find poetry, and therefore beauty, in the world today!!!!!
Rating: - Was what I wanted
The Complete Poems was exactly what I wanted - a complete collection of Christina Rossetti's poems, with some straightforward notes (of varying levels of detail) about each poem. It has a short, useful general introduction, and a simple/pleasing paperback layout. No fireworks in the night sky, but exactly what I wanted.
Rating: - An excellent volume
This is a comprehensive volume of the work from the greatest woman poet ever to write in the English Language. It contains all of her poems, properly organised into the correct categories (and a decent index!). It doesn't have any of the prose work like Speaking Likenesses or Face of the Deep, but for her skilled, deep, and beautiful poetry this publication is essential.
Rating: - Fairy tales, feminism, and faith
This is the first paperback edition of Rossetti's complete poems. The book is rather daunting at over 1200 pages, and nearly 200 of those pages are textual notes. The textual notes are great for those interested in the historical context of Rossetti's work, biblical influence on her work, and some relevant excerpts from her letters and her brother's notes to her complete poems.
The variety and bulk of her work are the most impressive aspects of this volume. The books published during ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.8
EAN: 9780140423662
ISBN: 0140423664
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1312
Publication Date: November 01, 2001
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date: October 30, 2001
Sales Rank: 80085
Studio: Penguin Classics